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

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

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

>
> mh... OK, I still don't agree... my point was only that if on the shell
>

You seem to not understand that there are two very different C runtimes 
involved with your examples below.

> less /usr/local/share/myfile
>

This one uses the MSYS runtime while

> works, it should also work when issuing from within a program
>
> fopen("/usr/local/share/myfile")
>

this one is using the MSVCRT runtime.

> that's all
>

And if you want to use a Cygwin runtime then use Cygwin (MSYS is a fork 
of Cygwin).  MSVCRT has no idea what /usr/local/share/myfile is unless 
the current active drive happens to have such a directory.  MSYS has a 
simplistic goal of being an interface between the UNIX scripting world 
and the natural windows program.  The MinGW gcc builds natural windows 
programs.  By natural I mean it uses the MSVCRT runtime.

Earnie