RE: MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 30 January 2006 16:25, tom wrote:

> That said, one thing I loved about msys is the ability to pass a *nix
> style path and have it automatically converted, i.e. I could start gvim
> like so:  
> gvim.exe /c/src/myfile.cs
> and the path would convert to 'C:\src\myfile.cs' for the windows exe.
> 
> I know cygwin has the cygpath util to deal with this... But is there any
> way to get the MSYS automatic path conversion in Cygwin? 

  But cygwin apps understand *nix style paths natively!  Perhaps you need to ask yourself _why_ you want to do what you want to
do...

>I know Cygwin
> has 'MinGW runtime' library packages - Is there some way to use those
> libs in Cygwin to get the desired effect? Any insight?   

  Yes: MSYS is a fork of Cygwin, and that is why MSYS contains Cygwin's patch-converting magic.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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