windres doesn't accept DOS paths

[Travis Howell]

I was just wondering, are there any plans to fix the problem of Cygwin's
windres failing to understand windows style paths which is mentioned below ?

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 10:00 AM 12/27/2001, Matthew Brett wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think someone mentioned that if cygwin utilities do not accept DOS
>> paths then this should be considered a bug.  Just to report then, if
>> you pass a DOS path to windres, it barfs:
>>
>> windres "c:\test.rc"
>>
>> gives
>>
>> gcc: c:test.rc: No such file or directory
>> gcc: Warning: `-x c-header' after last input file has no effect
>> gcc: No input files
>> windres: warning: preprocessor failed
>> windres: no resources
>
> There does appear to be some issue here.  Even at the DOS prompt, the
> backslash needs to be escaped in order to work (in the example above).
> Other Cygwin utilities don't have this problem.  It's worth noting
> that the POSIX path and the "c:/test.rc" alternative paths both work
> fine though with windres.
>
>
>
>
> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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