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Re: posix and win32 enviornment
- From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:57:06 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: posix and win32 enviornment
int main( void )
{
#ifdef __CYGWIN__ // Cygwin
printf( "I understand POSIX paths!\n" );
#elif defined( _WIN32 ) // Any other win32
printf( "I don't understand much of anything..\n" );
#else // Something else - probably POSIXly correct..
printf( "I understand POSIX paths too!\n" );
#endif
return ( 0 );
}
HTH
rlc
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
>
> > I am writting a C program...
> > is there a way for me to know if the program is being
> > executed in win32 or posix cygwin so that I can use
> > the appropriate filesystem when referring files?
>
> It's very simple. If you use the Cygwin gcc, by default it links with
> cygwin1.dll, and the program will understand POSIX paths. If you give a
> "-mno-cygwin" option to gcc, you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your
> program will not understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32
> ones).
>
> FYI, Cygwin programs always understand POSIX paths, even when executed
> from a command window or a batch file.
> Igor
>
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