[Mingw-users] ./ prepend and .exe append?

[Mark A. <mar...@ve...>]

Hello everyone,

 

I can't figure out why I occasionally I am required to prepend "./ " or
alternatively append ".exe" to an executable in order to run it.  Most of
the time neither one is necessary.  But, in some builds they are required.
I have looked around for help on this but I seem to be the only Mingw user
with this problem.  The problem is intermittent and I can't see what I am
doing differently in those cases where one or the other needs to be
included.  I'm embarrassed to be asking this question, by the way, because
it seems intuitively like there should be an obvious answer.

 

Regards,

Mark Allyn