Re: [Mingw-users] adding my own libraries to mingw

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 26 November 2010 08:05, William Simpson wrote:
> I just used the makefile that Keith told me to use...
>
> [...snip...]
>
> ... I am referring to my makefile,
> not Keith's. [Keith's did not work at all, as shown in the message
> below] ...

In what way did it not work?

> For ref, here is the makefile Keith gave me a couple of posts ago:
>
>   ...
>
> # I made these 2 small changes below to point to the correct directories
>  libdir = c:/mingw/local/lib
>  includedir = c:/mingw/local/inlcude

Sorry, I've misled you here; (I wrote it as I would, forgetting that you
are using a make [mingw32-make] which relies on a dysfunctional shell
[cmd.exe]).  cmd.exe will be confused by those slashes used as path
name separators; you need:

  libdir = c:\mingw\local\lib
  includedir = c:\mingw\local\inlcude

or maybe even:

  libdir = c:\\mingw\\local\\lib
  includedir = c:\\mingw\\local\\inlcude

(because make uses backslash as an escape; I don't know if GNU make
built for native windows is smart enough to guess when any single
backslash is intended to represent a path name separator, or an escape).

>  ...

Other than requiring that correction, which is needed for "make install"
to work correctly, I can see no reason for it not to work.  Please tell
us why you think it doesn't.  (And please stop top-posting, or I may
stop responding).

> ... didn't move and del files correctly, looking in the worng place
> for them. When I invoke make in a given directory, and my makefile
> tells it to move a file from *here* to *there*, it should know to look
> *here* for the file to move! It doesn't. It looks in c:\
>
> I never told make to look there. When I start up cmd.exe, the
> autorun.bat tells it to start in c:\. Else it starts in something like
>
>   ...My Documents...
>
> I don't see why that would be the problem, since this is a sensible
> place to start, in the search path for everybody. It does not confuse
> gcc for example, or any other command I use.

I suspect this is Windows' inherent user hostility working against you.
Your copy and del commands are cmd.exe built-ins, so make spawns cmd.exe
to execute them; (in fact, it may even spawn cmd.exe to execute all
commands other than a very few make built-ins).  If that spawned cmd.exe
runs your autorun.bat, then you lost your current working directory.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.