[llvm-commits] Patch for compiling with Mingw/Cygwin

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Alain Frisch wrote:

> Chris Lattner wrote:
>> Okay, this looks really good.  One final question before I commit:  
>> why does tblgen want a windows path instead of a unix path?  Can  
>> that be fixed in tblgen?  Doesn't this affect llvm-as and all other  
>> tools?
>
> When we compile with Mingw/Cygwin, we want to produce plain Win32  
> programs and libraries that don't depend on the cygwin DLL to  
> resolve filenames, so it is normal that tools such as llvm-as don't  
> accept unix paths. This is exactly the same as for the normal Mingw  
> case. The difference with Mingw here is that the build system  
> (make), being a Cygwin program, works with unix paths, so some  
> translation is needed.

Ok, makes sense, thanks!

-Chris