How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path names given at the command line

Question

On Windows, I\'m cross-compiling a program for ARM/Linux using CodeSourcery\'s cross-compiler suite. I use MinGW MSYS as my command interpreter, and very often it will mangl

Answer 1

I just discovered a neat trick to avoid MSYS/MinGW translating the paths for you.

If you use double-slash to start the path, then MSYS won't translate the path to DOS format. So in OP's example, the -rpath switch should be specified like this:

-Wl,-rpath=//usr/lib/myrpath

All Unix/Linux tools seem to handle such spurious slashes without any problem, so even though your binary's rpath will start with //usr/... I think the loader will do the right thing.