I have discovered a trivial error in the shlwapi.h Win32 API header file. I'm not a Cygwin developer but have appended a patch to the installed file.
John Dallaway eCosCentric Limited --cut here-- --- shlwapi.h.old 2002-11-25 20:21:02.000000000 +0000 +++ shlwapi.h 2003-02-03 12:44:08.000000000 +0000 @@ -262,12 +262,12 @@ WINSHLWAPI BOOL WINAPI PathMatchSpecW(LPCWSTR,LPCWSTR); WINSHLWAPI int WINAPI PathParseIconLocationA(LPSTR); WINSHLWAPI int WINAPI PathParseIconLocationW(LPWSTR); WINSHLWAPI void WINAPI PathQuoteSpacesA(LPSTR); WINSHLWAPI void WINAPI PathQuoteSpacesW(LPWSTR); -WINSHLWAPI BOOL WINAPI PathRelativePathToA(LPSTR,LPCSTR,DWORD,LPCWSTR,DWORD); -WINSHLWAPI BOOL WINAPI PathRelativePathToW(LPWSTR,LPCWSTR,DWORD,LPCSTR,DWORD); +WINSHLWAPI BOOL WINAPI PathRelativePathToA(LPSTR,LPCSTR,DWORD,LPCSTR,DWORD); +WINSHLWAPI BOOL WINAPI PathRelativePathToW(LPWSTR,LPCWSTR,DWORD,LPCWSTR,DWORD); WINSHLWAPI void WINAPI PathRemoveArgsA(LPSTR); WINSHLWAPI void WINAPI PathRemoveArgsW(LPWSTR); WINSHLWAPI LPSTR WINAPI PathRemoveBackslashA(LPSTR); WINSHLWAPI LPWSTR WINAPI PathRemoveBackslashW(LPWSTR); WINSHLWAPI void WINAPI PathRemoveBlanksA(LPSTR); -- 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/