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Re: [Gcl-devel] mingw32 paths
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Gcl-devel] mingw32 paths |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:41:58 -0500 |
Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
| Greetings! I've successfully tested maxima and acl2 under both wine
| and a native windows machine.
That sounds promising -- I'll get to your other message soon.
| I have a question regarding paths. From what I can tell, gcl needs
| *to be run* under a mingw32 shell if it wants to compile anything.
| Said shell reports paths as /c/dir/foo.c, but GCL's current truename
| and probe-file expect c:/dir/foo.c. What is 'supposed to happen'
| here?
Please keep GCL's truename as it is. The msys's UNIX-style /c/dir/foo.c
is just convenience for UNIX-centric tools (especially build tools).
However, since we want GCL to be built natively, it should have Windows
version c:/dir/foo.c, otherwise trouble.
BTW, you can also use "pwd -W" (only in msys) to report the windows
style pathname for directories.
Also, please, keep the path separator as '/' -- that requires less escaping.
-- Gaby