Re: ar.exe & scripts

Florian Schricker wrote:

> Thanks for clearing this up - as said I am still new to MinGW/MSYS and
> it seems as if I just got carried away by "woot I finally have a shell
> I'm so much used to". :-/
> I am/was still reading up on all this stuff...

If you want posix paths everywhere, then use Cygwin.  You'll get an
'ar'  (and everything else) that understands "/usr/local" paths.  On the
other end is mingw, which attempts no path translation whatsoever.  
MSYS (which is actually a fork of an old version of Cygwin) tries to be
a go-between, supporting posix-style paths as arguments but translating
them to win32 paths upon invocation of mingw tools.

Brian


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