[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

Jim.George jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:12:14 +0100


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, [iso-8859-1] Sylvain Petreolle wrote:

> > Have a look at ../tools/libtool-get-dll-ext, maybe
> > you can add a check
> > for Windows and/or fix the detection. I don't know
> > if those links are
> > necessary or work at all on Windows. If I remember
> > correctly, they
> > don't even have a real ln command.
> In Cygwin, ln & links are emulated with the use
> of windows shortcuts. The path is empty and the
> shortcut comment receives the unix path.
>
Sylvain,

	could you explain this a little further for me please?

Jim