cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
Jeremy Sheeley
jeremy@sourcegear.com
Fri May 19 07:45:00 GMT 2000
I have a problem in that if i try:
notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive. So how
do I easily get the dos-style path? Here's the full context:
We have a cross-platform app that uses the same Makefiles on all the
platforms. The first thing that we do is set a variable to the source's
root directory using something like:
ROOT := $(shell pwd)
This will, if the source is outside the cygwin hierarchy, set ROOT to
/cygdrive/c/blah. Then the compiler (which is cl, the Visual C++
compiler) won't be able to find the source files.
one quick fix is to change the line to something like:
ROOT := $(shell pwd | sed 's/\/cygdrive\/\(.\)\//\1:\\/g')
which translates /cygdrive/c/ to c:\
BUT that's ugly, requires too much platform-specific knowledge in the
Makefile and would require that we change all the Makefiles.
So to sum up: There has to be an easier way!! Any ideas?
-Jeremy Sheeley
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