From: blake@edge.net (Blake McBride) Subject: Re: Problem with mount and MS cl.exe 2 Jan 1997 17:24:58 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701022238.QAA09877.cygnus.gnu-win32@edge.edge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: blake@edge.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 03:54 PM 1/2/97 -0500, you wrote: >The mount mechanism doesn't seem to work properly with Microsoft's >compiler, cl.exe. Inside bash (17.1 release), the c: drive is mounted >as /. The following works: > > bash$ ls -l /foo/bar.c > -rw-r--r-- 1 500 everyone 795 Jan 02 15:44 /foo/bar.c > > bash$ cl /c c:/foo/bar.c > Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 10.20.6166 for 80x86 > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1996. All rights reserved. > > bar.c > >But if I try to do: > > bash$ cl /c /foo/bar.c > >the compiler barfs with: > > Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 10.20.6166 for 80x86 > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1996. All rights reserved. > > Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '/foo/bar' > Command line error D2003 : missing source filename > >Apparently, cl.exe is making some assumptions about its command line >arguments that aren't accounted for in cygwin.dll's path tranlation >scheme? I suspect other MS apps may suffer the same problem... In DOS (NT command prompt) the option introduction character is defaulted to '/' as apposed to Unix's '-'. cl is reading the /f as a compiler option. This has nothing to do with bash and can't even be addressed by bash. You'd have the same problem in unix if you had a file whose name started with a hyphen. It'd be best in this case if you just used the backslashes. --blake -- Get info on my Dynace Object Oriented Extension to C and Windows Development System from: http://www.edge.net/algorithms Blake McBride (blake@edge.net) Algorithms Corporation - 615-791-1636 - USA - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".