Re: [Mingw-users] (no subject)

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On 25.03.2010 18:51, Tristan Evain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new user of Msys, trying to execute a Win32 program via sh command
> line.
> I need to pass arguments, including a windows style path. Unfortunately, the
> utility I want to run doesn't accept slashes for separator, and I cannot
> find how to avoid backslashes substitution.
>
> My command is :
> $ runasspc /program:"c:\some_dir\some_program.exe"
>
> And runasspc get "c:/some_dir/some_program.exe" (i.e. with slashes) , and
> fails running the program.
> I tried two, three and four backslashes, with no effect.
>
> Is there a setting or an environment variable to set to deactivate this
> feature ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Tristan Evain
>   
I don't think so. MSys path mangling can't be disabled, as far as i
know. Causes some grief to me now and then. For example, you can't call
MS lib.exe (and most other MS utils which accept parameters as
"/foo:bar") from MSys. Also, you can't pass paths that end with ':'. For
example, if you call configure script for GStreamer this way:
configure --with-pkg-config-path:/local/lib/pkgconfig: (note the
trailing ':')
pkg-config won't find anything, because MSys wouldn't know to convert
"/local/lib/pkgconfig:" into "c:\msys\1.0.11\local\lib\pkgconfig;"

If it is disableable indeed, i would like to know that trick too.