Calling cygwin32_conv_to_full_win32_path from a MSVC app

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Wed Jan 12 12:13:00 GMT 2000


--- "Gordon Watts (UW Seattle)" <gwatts@fnal.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm trying to convert from UNIX paths to NT paths inside an app that has
> been built under MSVC. I was hoping to do this by pulling in the
> cygwin19.dll and then calling the conversion function.

Why cygwin B19?!! It's a couple of years old now.

>   I can see from the mailing list (I used egroups, which had the best
> message interface that I saw, to do the search) that this has been discussed
> quite a bit. After an hour of looking I wasn't able to fix the problem. Here
> is what I'm doing now.
> 

There exists a utility program called cygpath that does this already.  I don't
remember if it was distributed with B19 or not, but it did exist in that era
and it is in the current source tree.

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