VS2008 Command Prompt + Cygwin

Question

I use the VS2008 command prompt for builds, TFS access etc. and the cygwin prompt for grep, vi and unix-like tools. Is there any way I can \'import\' the vcvars32.bat functi

Answer 1

Here is my sample Cygwin.bat file that configures Visual studio and starts mintty

@echo off
@REM Select the latest VS Tools
IF  EXIST %VS100COMNTOOLS% (
    CALL "%VS100COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat"
    GOTO :start_term
)

IF  EXIST %VS90COMNTOOLS% (
    CALL "%VS90COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat"
    GOTO :start_term
)

IF  EXIST %VS80COMNTOOLS% (
    CALL "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat"
    GOTO :start_term
)

:start_term

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
START mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -