Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: [Mingw-users] Paths question.

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >
> > On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 06:31 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> > > Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > >>
> > >> This is probably a FAQ (though I can't seem to find an answer
> > >> anywhere) ...
> > >>
> > >> What are the rules for path handling in mingw and msys?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Discussed in the literature in the msys\1.0\doc directory.
> >
> > Thanks ... that helped somewhat ... though it would be good to know
> > exactly
> > what circumstances path translation is performed in when running mingw
> > tools
> > It seems that any argument in the format of an msys path is converted
> > to a windows path, but arguments like a '-I/usr/include' are not.
> >
> 
> Works for me.  Note, you must use the MSYS shell and not the
> COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE shell for -I/usr/include to be translated as GCC and
> friends aren't a part of MSYS but are a native version using MSVCRT.DLL.
> 

Also, let me add that command line path translation isn't done at all
for programs residing in /bin or /usr/bin.  Those directories are
reserved for msys-1.0.dll dependant binaries.

Earnie.

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