[Mingw-msys] Re: Spurious pathname tranformations applied to /xxx switches

[Jonathan T. <tec...@ka...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On 7:21:29 am 2005-06-06 Jonathan Turkanis
> <tec...@ka...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to execute a makefile designed for use with GNU make and
>> the Microsoft C++ command-line tools. I find that the environment
>> translates some command-line swicthes as if they were file pathnames.
>> For instance, /EHsc becomes C:/Tools/msys/1.0/EHsc. It only happens
>> in some cases; for example, the linker option /OUT: doesn't get
>> translated.
>>
>> I've found I can disable this behavior by changing the makefile to
>> use "//" instead of "/". This is not an acceptable solution, however,
>> since it would render the makefile unusable in other environments.
>>
>> What can I do to disable the translations?
>>
>
> Does ``make --win32'' help?

I get the errors shown below.

> Earnie

Jonathan

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$ make --win32 -fvc-explicit-cmd.mak
cl /c /nologo /EHsc /GR /Fohello hello.cpp
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2002. All rights reserved.

cl : Command line warning D4024 : unrecognized source file type 'c:/', object
file assumed
cl : Command line warning D4024 : unrecognized source file type
'C:/Tools/msys/1.0/nologo', object file assumed
cl : Command line warning D4024 : unrecognized source file type
'C:/Tools/msys/1.0/EHsc', object file assumed