Hi

I'm seeking for good ideas how to robustly solve this problem.

I want to use cygwin as development environment on win for scripts using the systems Perl (ActiveState)

Especially I want to use Emacs there because some el-module provider don't want to fix problems with win-emacs.

The problem is that cygwin uses a unix stile paths while the win-perl expect win-style path

While using cygwin-emacs with cygwin-perl works calling win-perl from emacs fails because the path to the script can't be resolved.

Example: C:\tmp\tst_flymake.pl is /cygdrive/c/tmp/tst_flymake.pl in emacs.

One workaround is to use a wrapper to call win-perl which does the translation:

perl `cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/tmp/tst_flymake.pl`

But the warnings and errors emitted from win-perl will be windows-style again and emacs will fail to automatically jump to the correct line number.

I also tried to work with softlinks to establish a common compromise path-system, like linking C: to /cygdrive/c/ but with little success.

I am sure I can come out with a more or less stable solution with several layers of complicated translations, but would appreciate other ideas...

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!

PS: before the emacs bashing starts, VIM users should face the same problem even more, because of more dependencies on a unix like environment.

In reply to Pathproblems while using CygWin as development environement on Win by LanX

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