"David Carter" <david@carter.net> writes: > While you could use the mingw compiler & linker with cygwin, as > recommended by some on the web, by placing them ahead of the cygwin > tools in your path, you are almost certain to run into issues with > dos/windows file paths vs. unix-style paths. Since our build-environment is already adapted to use other non-cygwin compilers (such as Visual C++ and Intel C), this is not a real problem. We wrap all non-cygwin programs in a script which does all the conversions for us. /Jesper -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesper Eskilson jojo@virtutech.se Virtutech http://www.virtutech.se ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/