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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
