Mysterious syntax error with "set" command in TCL script

Another Linux vs Windows issue. We have a TCL script that works under Linux when we use "vitis -s <scriptname>", but it gives us problems at the following line under Windows. Any idea what's going wrong here?

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Jan Cumps 7 months ago +1

/temp/workspace is most likely not a windows root directory.
quadzilla 7 months ago +1

Found the problem. A co-worker let me astray when he said we should use "vitis -s". I had to dig deeper to learn that this is only for Python scripts. In othe words, it was a documentation error on his…

dyessgg 7 months ago

I'm assuming you're moving the file between the platforms in a way that converts the line endings.

It would be helpful to see a few lines above and below the offending line.

Maybe try turning on your editor's option to visualize "white space" characters. There might be something lurking there Windows doesn't like.
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Jan Cumps 7 months ago

/temp/workspace is most likely not a windows root directory.
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quadzilla 7 months ago in reply to Jan Cumps

No, c:/temp/workspace definitely exists.
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quadzilla 7 months ago in reply to dyessgg

Since you asked, this is what Notepad++ shows me. I don't see anything unusual there.
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shabaz 7 months ago in reply to quadzilla

Are there any TCL commands above the snippet you supplied? Maybe the TCL interpreter isn't invoked and Windows is executing it as a different script, throwing the error. You could test with other TCL commands. It's been a decade since I last used TCL so I cannot remember a single TCL command any more : (
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quadzilla 7 months ago in reply to shabaz

Nope. Those are the very first lines.

Could Vitis not be invoking the TCL interpreter? I suppose so, but I wouldn't know how this could happen or why.
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Jan Cumps 7 months ago in reply to quadzilla

yes but that's not /temp/workspace
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quadzilla 7 months ago

Found the problem. A co-worker let me astray when he said we should use "vitis -s". I had to dig deeper to learn that this is only for Python scripts. In othe words, it was a documentation error on his part. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks everyone.
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padudle 7 months ago

I think you should make that a relative pathname like ./temp/workspace/system_build.xsa for better portability.

Sometimes putting the path in {} brackets helps. I think it tells Xilinx TCL to convert to the native path format of the local machine.
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