Subject: Re: Problem with mount and MS cl.exe
From: [email-masked] (Blake McBride)

2 Jan 1997 17:24:58 -0800
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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

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