Re: Crossed-Native Builds, Toolchain Relocation and MinGW

[Dave Murphy <wintermute2k4 at ntlworld dot com>]

Ross Ridge wrote:
> Ross Ridge wrote:
>   
> > MinGW GCC is a native Win32 application and is unaffected by any mounts
> > you create with MSYS.
> >     
>
> Dave Murphy wrote:
>   
> > It's affected when you run from the msys bash shell, my apologies for
> > not being clear.
> >     
>
> That makes no difference.  MinGW GCC is a native Win32 application and
> can't see any mounts you create with MSYS.
>   
sorry but you're most definitely wrong about that.

davem@NEUROMANCER /e
$ cat /usr/local/test/test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

       printf(argv[0]);
       return 0;
}

davem@NEUROMANCER /e
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from e:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as 
--host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads 
--disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java 
--disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exceptions 
--enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boehm 
--disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter 
--enable-hash-synchronization --enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: win32
gcc version 3.4.2 (mingw-special)

davem@NEUROMANCER /e
$ gcc /usr/local/test/test.c -o /usr/local/test/test.exe

davem@NEUROMANCER /e
$ /usr/local/test/test.exe
E:\msys\local\test\test.exe
davem@NEUROMANCER /e
$

As you can see the paths are translated by the shell before being passed 
to windows executables.

Dave