Problem executing batch files from the Windows command prompt

["Olivier Langlois" <olanglois at quazal dot com>]

Hi,

Since I installed cygwin on a PC and I try to execute a bat file from the Windows command prompt (system32\cmd.exe), it does not work as expected.

mkmf.bat is located in C:\tools\bin

environment variable path=C:\tools\bin

From a different directory, if I type:

mkmf

It works fine.
Now if I change the path variable to path=C:\tools\bin;C:\cygwin\bin

and I type

mkmf

I have an error message saying:

Cannot find executable in PATH

and if I type

mkmf.bat

I get the following error message:

Cannot execute /cygdrive/c/tools/bin/mkmf.bat

Can someone explain me what is happening? It is like if when the cygwin bin directory is added to the PATH variable, cygwin would have some kind of hooks on the Windows command prompt. I do not understand what is happening...

Thank you,
Olivier Langlois
http://www.quazal.com
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