Re: [Mingw-users] fopen in msys/mingw

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Lorenzo Bettini <be...@ds...>:

>
> yes, but how to use a windows path?  If pwd -W is not standard?
>

I don't understand our disconnection.  The -W is MSYS specific.  If one 
is using MSYS then pwd -W is available.  If one uses Cygwin they use 
cygpath or something like that.  If one uses some other shell, they use 
whatever else is available.  How does this affect your program?

I suspect you might want to consider the location of the installed path 
and use relative paths to walk up the tree to find the path.  If you 
use relative pathing if a program is installed in 
c:/msys/1.0/usr/local/bin then one should be able to find 
c:/msys/1.0/user/local/lib by using ../lib instead.  This way your 
program can be installed on /some/path/noone/knows/the/name/to and it 
still is likely to work.  This is what GCC does to find it's lib and 
include paths.

Earnie