#include don't find normal file name (more than 7 chars)

[europrimus]

Hello,
I'm new to nqc and I try use #include.

And i find it don't work with "normal" file name (more than 7 chars).

#include "lib.nqh"     // work
#include "lib12.h"     // work
#include "lib1.nqh"    // Error: could not open file lib1.nqh

I'm under Linux Manjaro and I use nqc version 4.1.0 (built Oct 6 2025, 08:34:47)

I don't find any reference to this limitation in the doc and in the Omni example there is an include of a file name with 12 chars.

Is there some think I miss understand or is it a bug ?

[mesheets]

Offhand, I'm not aware of anything that should have changed in that regard between 3.1-r6 and these v4 releases. Does the same behavior occur in v3?

If there were any file name length limitations, I would have expected those to be documented on page 21 in the Programmer’s Guide. Seven seems an unusual character length limitation, not even aligning with the old 8.3 limit from back in the day….

[mesheets]

in the Omni example there is an include of a file name with 12 chars

If looking at the "roboarm" examples that were included with Dave Baum’s Definitive Guide to LEGO MindStorms, Second Edition, an include of a file with a name in excess of seven characters can also be found there….

• https://github.com/BrickBot/nqc/tree/v4.1.0/docs/guidebook

[europrimus]

Thanks for your answer.

I tested with old commit 3ce83bc (Jan 17, 2020) and 16554b7 (Jul 7, 2016)

I have the same error.

$ nqc_3ce83bcd951d930b4ef98d0a2032b98cdc025056 main.nqc 
# Error: could not open file lib1.nqh
File "main.nqc" ; line 5
# #include "lib1.nqh" # not included ??
#                                      ^
#----------------------------------------------------------
# 1 error during compilation

$ nqc_16554b758757b11c8326ad6c8661f0a49b466c74 main.nqc 
# Error: could not open file lib1.nqh
File "main.nqc" ; line 5
# #include "lib1.nqh" # not included ??
#                                      ^
#----------------------------------------------------------
# 1 error during compilation

Maybe it's char set related... but the name in error message is not truncated.