Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:57:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: "Ling F. Zhang" Subject: Re: posix and win32 enviornment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/