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Re: ar.exe & scripts: msg#00028

gnu.mingw.msys

Subject: Re: ar.exe & scripts

Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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.

Not just on invocation of MinGW tools! This path translation occurs
on invocation of any native Windows application, i.e. any non-MSYS
application, (which includes, but is not restricted to MinGW tools).

Regards,
Keith.


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