From: George B. <sib...@ya...> - 2011-07-12 15:58:17
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Using /c/ as a designation for the real root helped, thank you. But I do not understand what is the point of using MSYS as a shell? The fact that MinGW can work from windows' native cmd.exe (and as a result from ANY windows application) was the whole reason for me to switch from cygwin to mingw. On 7/12/2011 8:24 AM, Earnie wrote: > I guess I should read the whole story. The root mount point is the > parent of the directory (in this case c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin) containing > the msys-1.0.dll. It was designed to work that way. If you want > instead c:\ you ``ls /c'' to get that. And it is intended for you to > start msys from the msys.bat file provided and work in the MSYS shell. > It is not supported use for you to use the MSYS binaries from the > Windows cmd.exe. MSYS will convert the POSIX paths it uses to Windows > paths that a native program understands. I.E. MSYS is doing what it was > designed to do and there is nothing to fix. > |