[AWS] Trying to build on Windows

[Pascal Obry]

Marius,

> Thanks, but no go. I shall note that:
>
> - contrarily to what the error message suggests, directory
> "/cygdrive/c/GNAT/2011/bin/../lib/aws/native/static" exists


I missed the /cygwin/c/GNAT part! This is a problem with your
envrironment. You have
a Cygwin PATH which does exists in native Win32.

> - the path on the error message mixes Windows ("C:", '\') and Cygwin
> ("cygdrive", '/') format; to me this is clearly wrong (specially
> mixing "C:" and "cygdrive")
>
> The problem probably lies in any of these facts, but I don't know how
> to fix it. The directory is specified in project file AWS_Lib_Shared
> as LIBZ_Path := "/cygdrive/c/GNAT/2011/bin/../lib/aws/native/static";
> I already tried changing the '/'s to '\'s (same result).

No, try replacing /cygdrive/c by c:/.

This should not happen when your environment is properly setup. The pwd command
MUST return a valid PATH for both Cygwin and native Windows.

The trick is to work and install GNAT under a mount point:

   $ mount c:/opt /opt
   $ mount c:/home /home

Then install GNAT under c/opt/gnat

And work only under /home.

The /home (in cygwin env) is exactly pointing to c:/home in native windows.

Pascal.

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