On 4/4/2020 5:00 AM, Ben wrote: > I've been playing with ARM GNU GCC and some examples from nordic semiconductor for some of their > demo boards (The Thingy)
Sounds as if that is a Windows program, not a Cygwin or Linux program. > The make file that comes with the project includes source files using the (abspath ../main.c) (as > one example) which GCC really seems to hate. > The output from GCC is the full path (/home/bkamen/workspace-nordic/.....) right down to the file > and gcc tells me it can't find the file. If your gcc is a Windows gcc then it wants a Windows path. > if I change the mail file to use a relative path, gcc can find that... but ultimately I'm trying to > understand the issue than just patch around it. This goes along with my theory. > I'm using the arm-gcc from the developer.arm.com website. > > Is there something else I'm missing? What files can I offer (like the makefile) that can help > determine the issue? You can fix the Makefile to pass Windows paths. The cygpath tool and make's $(shell ...) command might be useful. But I also wonder if maybe the mingw environment is more suited to this work, or finding a Windows version of make. Perhaps there are others here who can clarify or add to this ... EM -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
