Ant: Re: [ros-dev] mingw32-make erros in rbuild

[Hartmut Birr]

Hi,

if you have a sh.exe in the search path, make uses sh.exe instead of cmd.exe to execute some of the commands. Sh.exe 
doesn't understand paths which are containing back slashes. 
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO/setup_a_build_environment_for_Windows describes, how you can setup a build 
environment.

- Hartmut



tobitosso wrote:
> --- Royce Mitchell III <royce3 at ev1.net> schrieb:
> 
>> tobitosso wrote:
>>
>>> perhaps even Windows itself understand using /
>> instead
>>> of \.
>>>  
>>>
>> No, Windows does *not* understand using / instead of
>> \ in all the cases 
>> we need for rbuild.
>>
>> Your suggestions will break the build for those not
>> using your build 
>> environment ( the majority of us )
> I reinstalled MinGW and MSYS yesterday before sending
> this e-mail and now everything worked until using
> makfile.auto is started.(I used the original sources
> not the ones changed by me). In makefile.auto,
> mingw32-make doesn't find some file in
> APPS\UTILS\NET\ARP which actually exists because it
> looks for somethingAPPSUTILSNETARPsomething in the
> toplevel dir.
> Is there code in rbuild that changes / to \ in pathes
> when generating Makefile.auto. If yes, please tell me
> where and don't just say my MSYS and MinGW is wrong.
> If not, where are the \ in pathes introduced in making
> Makefile.auto?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> tobitosso
>