{"id":733,"date":"2022-08-30T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/09\/difference-between-and-in-compiling-options-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:06:16","slug":"difference-between-and-in-compiling-options-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/difference-between-and-in-compiling-options-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between &#8211; and -\u200b- in compiling options-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>-shell=escape<\/code> is invalid.<\/p>\n<p>The correct syntax is the one starting with two hyphens. The versions with one hyphen (<code>-shell-escape<\/code>) often works too. But as Christian Schenk, the maintainer of MiKTeX, once wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please note that the single &#8216;-&#8216; prefixes a sequence of single-letter options (aka short options). That is, if you specify <code>-unre<\/code>, you are actually invoking these options:<\/p>\n<pre><code>--update-fndb  --print-only  --user-roots\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I would recommend, tha you always specify the &#8220;long options&#8221; (prefixed by two &#8216;-&#8216;). The short options (one &#8216;-&#8216;) are only for backward compatibility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2013-11-09 21:44:38. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-shell=escape is invalid. The correct syntax is the one starting with two hyphens. The versions with one hyphen (-shell-escape) often works too. But as Christian Schenk, the maintainer of MiKTeX, once wrote: Please note that the single &#8216;-&#8216; prefixes a sequence of single-letter options (aka short options). That is, if you specify -unre, you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}