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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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