Re: [Mingw-users] [GCC 4.4.0] Why does the gcc preprocessor manipulates macros (path names)

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:41:03 Heiko Lechner wrote:
> Now I got a makefile which invokes the following:
>
> powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcc catgets.c [...bla...]
> -DNLSPATH='"/home/Heiko/xcompilers/..."'

> So I added "-save-temps" and in catgets.i NLSPATH is resolved to:
> "C:\msys\1.0\home\Heiko\xcompilers\..."
>
> So the preprocessor turned all "/" into "\" which is the worst.

It isn't the preprocessor which has done this; it is MSYS' generally 
helpful path translation feature.  In your case, this is *not* what 
you want, but unfortunately, there is probably no way to avoid it, 
and still get the path passed as you want it.

For your current application, GNU/Linux or Cygwin would be a better 
choice of working platform.

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Regards,
Keith.