Windows confusing object file names for other file types

[David Holmes]

On 3/03/2022 11:29 pm, Julian Waters wrote:
> Windows seems to commonly confuse object file names that are created during
> the build process

I don't understand what you mean by that, please elaborate.

Thanks,
David

> , despite .obj being the normal file format for object
> files on it (Weirdly enough), which is pretty likely because of pre-defined
> registry entries and applications that come together with it with fresh
> installs. This does sort of make it a pretty troublesome issue to solve,
> and I can't really think of any good all encompassing fix other than to
> change the object file suffix to something else (Which would be pretty
> simple to do but I don't know if that would have any unwanted side effects
> elsewhere), I'm not sure if this is something the proposed solution would
> be ok for or if there are better ways to do this?
> 
> best regards,
> Julian
> 
> P.S. Windows stop being so bloated please ;-;