Re: [Mingw-msys] problem with -Fo flag to visual c++ compiler

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Dave Lawrence wrote:
> The visual c++ compiler has a flag -Fo<file> to name the object file.
> When I use msys/mingw to compile, it doesn't work for certain
> filenames.  For example:
> 
> $ cd /h/dgl/tmp
> $ cl -c -Fohello.obj hello.c
> works
> 

Great!

> $ cl -c -Fo../tmp/hello.obj hello.c
> works
> 

Great!

> $ cl -c -Fo/h/dgl/tmp/hello.obj hello.c
> fails with this error:
> fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler generated file:
> '/h/dgl/tmp/hello.obj': No s
> uch file or directory
> 

-Fo/path/to/file isn't a rule that MSYS understands, yet.  Unfortunately 
you must also butt the file against the switch for it to find the 
argument.  I'll see what I can manage, probably something like - 
followed by F then start path transalation at char [3].

Yuck, yuck, yuck!!!!

> 
> PS - you might ask why I don't just use the h:/dgl/tmp/hello.obj
> syntax.  The answer is, I'm using the $(CURDIR) variable in make
> and it returns /h/dgl/tmp for the current directory.
> 

What happens for you if you ``make --win32''?

Earnie.