[Mingw-users] Command line options are being ignored

[Christian G. <Chr...@gm...>]

Hello!

I have asked this question on the MSYS list before but I'm not sure
whether that has been the right place.

For some strange reason my MSYS shell does not pass on command line
parameters to the program being called.

To demonstrate that I have written a simple C program which does
nothing but to merely output its command line arguments to stdout:

// ---------------- snip ---------------
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  int i;

  for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
    printf("Command Line Argument %d: %s\n", i+1, argv[i]);

  return 0;
}
// ---------------- snap ---------------

I have compiled that program once using the MingW and once using the
Cygwin version of gcc.  I have then run both executables in an MSYS
shell and on the built-in Windows command line.

When I run the MingW executable under an MSYS shell, the command line
options are not passed on to the program:

Gudrian@DEMETER /src/test
$ /bin/cla one two three
Command Line Argument 1: C:\msys\bin\cla.exe

When I use Windows' CMD instead, everything works as expected.  The
Cygwin executable works in both environments.

Any ideas what might cause this behaviour?

Thanks,

Christian