On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Alain Frisch wrote: > Chris Lattner wrote: >> Okay, this looks really good. One final question before I commit: >> why does tblgen want a windows path instead of a unix path? Can >> that be fixed in tblgen? Doesn't this affect llvm-as and all other >> tools? > > When we compile with Mingw/Cygwin, we want to produce plain Win32 > programs and libraries that don't depend on the cygwin DLL to > resolve filenames, so it is normal that tools such as llvm-as don't > accept unix paths. This is exactly the same as for the normal Mingw > case. The difference with Mingw here is that the build system > (make), being a Cygwin program, works with unix paths, so some > translation is needed.
Ok, makes sense, thanks! -Chris _______________________________________________ llvm-commits mailing list llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits
