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Bug 158866

Summary: Windows Paths are mangled into unix-like paths
Product: cnd Reporter: charlweed <charlweed>
Component: ToolchainAssignee: Alexander Simon <alexvsimon>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P4    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 160172    

Description charlweed 2009-02-19 23:59:13 UTC 
The MSVC tool collection does not work because windows paths are mangled. The paths are not truly converted into true
cygwin paths, so there is no hope of them working. For example the include path
Q:/CUDA_2_1/include
   is mangled into
/Q/CUDA_2_1/include

cygwin has a utility to convert between windows and cygwin paths. For the MSVC Tool collection, the paths should not be
converted if they are in short (dos) form. The spaces, semi-colons and backslashes in long windows form are also tricky,
and can often benefit from conversion into short form.

This is related to another issue, where MSVC needs various values set in the environment, and needs them in windows or
dos form.
Comment 1 charlweed 2009-02-20 00:59:21 UTC 
Related to issue 158867