[Mingw-users] Path Coherence

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

AWL...@ao... writes:

 > /some/path
 > win32 native, mingw (default), cygwin
 >   can't use non-C volumes

Umm, sure you can, as long as your working directory is on that
volume, and \some is a top-level folder on it (and it's mounted as
(/some in cygwin).

 > So, any thoughts?

Where do you want to go today ;-)

Seriously, your observations are correct, and there really isn't much
one can do about it when using a mixture of Cygwin (or MSYS),
native-Win32 and Unixish-but-running-on-Win32 programs. Except being
very careful to work on just one drive (volume) only, making sure the
top-level folders one work with also are mounted as top-level
directories from Cygwin's point of view and vice versa.

For instance, I don't even have any C: drive on my machine (something
to do with my having both SCSI and IDE disks, somehow that's how it
ended up after installing Win2k). My first drive letter is D:, and my
Windows system drive is H:, and I happen to do all mingw-related stuff
on the I: drive, doing software builds in various places under I:\src
(mounted as /src in Cygwin) and installing to I:\target (/target in
Cygwin).

--tml