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Subject: Re: need help compiling for Windows
From: Philip Walford <philip_walford@yahoo.com.au>
To: Sheryl Canter <sheryl@permutations.com>
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On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:27, Sheryl Canter wrote:
> I've been trying all day to compile GCC for Windows, and I just can't do it.
> I'm using the MinGW compiler as a boot compiler and cygwin for the
> environment. I added c:\mingw\bin to the path, but I keep getting this error
> message:

You said you're using cygwin?  Then you need to translate your paths to
use '/' rather than '\'.  Since cygwin is unix-like, '\x' is treated as
a way of escaping 'x'.  To include a '\' literally, you need '\\'.

Philip.