2009/5/31 Roger Head: > Thanks for the reply, Matt. I don't have a really good idea of how Cygwin and > Windows are both supposed to be able to handle .LNKs to e.g. G++, but a dump > of > g++.exe.lnk shows strings for /etc/alternatives and > L:\cygwin\etc\alternatives. > So yes, I don't know if Windows is supposed to be able follow that
Unfortunately not. .lnk shortcuts are a Windows Explorer concept, and not one that is the supported by the Windows kernel, hence cmd.exe sees them as normal files. > I'm almost certain that I was able to invoke it from a CMD window. Afaik, gcc and g++ changed into links only recently, to help with the transition from gcc-3.4 to 4.3. > I'm sure that I can come up with a hack that will let me do what I want The easiest thing to do would be to overwrite the link with the file it points to, e.g. 'cp /bin/g++-4.exe /bin/g++.exe'. You'd have to remember to do that after every gcc update though. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
