Using Visual C++ under Cygwin build system

Tue Oct 3 14:51:00 GMT 2000

> Hello. I am developing a build system using Cygwin (GNU make, bash,
> etc.) on Windows 2000.
>> Some of our subsystems must be built using Visual C++. Obviously
> Visual C++ will not understand paths like "/c/foo/bar.c" (where
> /c is the Cygwin mounted C: drive). However, since GNU make will
> be producing targets and processing prerequisites with precisely
> those kinds of paths, I foresee problems.

Use the 'cygpath' program included with cygwin. It will convert back and
forth between cygwin and windows paths. An example of using this in a make
file would be like this:
RES_FILE := $(shell cygpath -w $(OBJ_DIR)/resource.o)
cheers,
-Matt Smith
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