Invoking cl.exe (MSVC compiler) in Cygwin shell

Question

I\'m heavily using Cygwin (with PuTTY shell). But, it\'s quite tricky to invoke cl.exe (that is, the Visual C++ compiler toolchain) in the Cygwin Bash shell. R

Answer 1

I have converted my vsvars32.bat file with my visual_studio.env file. When I need to use the command-line Visual Studio's environment, I just do a source of this file.

In the sh shell environment, I cannot register the Windows path (\ and ; clash with sh) so before I translate them with cygpath -au or cygpath -aup commands then I write down them into my .env file and translate them back with cygpath -aw or cygpath -aup commands.

My visual_studio.env file look like this:

VS80COMNTOOLS=$(cygpath -aw '/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/Tools/'); export VS80COMNTOOLS
VSINSTALLDIR=$(cygpath -aw '/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8'); export VSINSTALLDIR
VCINSTALLDIR=$(cygpath -aw '/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC'); export VCINSTALLDIR
FrameworkDir=$(cygpath -aw '/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework'); export FrameworkDir
FrameworkVersion='v2.0.50727'; export FrameworkVersion
FrameworkSDKDir=$(cygpath -aw '/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/SDK/v2.0'); export FrameworkSDKDir

echo Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 x86 tools.

DevEnvDir=$(cygpath -aw '/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE'); export DevEnvDir

PATH='/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/BIN:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/Tools:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/Tools/bin:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/PlatformSDK/bin:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/SDK/v2.0/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/VCPackages':$PATH
INCLUDE=$(cygpath -awp '/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/ATLMFC/INCLUDE:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/INCLUDE:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/PlatformSDK/include:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/SDK/v2.0/include'); export INCLUDE
LIB=$(cygpath -awp '/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/ATLMFC/LIB:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/LIB:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/PlatformSDK/lib:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/SDK/v2.0/lib'); export LIB
LIBPATH=$(cygpath -awp '/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727:/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/ATLMFC/LIB'); export LIBPATH

I hope this can help you.