Hi Barry, I think you should change your source files. IIRC, the slashes are not directory separators; that is merely how they happen map onto a filesystem. The spec calls for forward slashes, regardless of how directories are separated on a particular OS. Don barryg wrote: > Our extensive C++ library that in the past was compiled using windows has the > following type of #include statments ... > > #include <dir1\dir2\dir3\file.h> > > however the gcc command line expects slashes in the other direction... > (Assume that the path is set to /home/yo and the file is in > /home/yo/dir1/dir2/dir3/) > > gcc -I/home/yo/ > > In our example gcc will not find the file.h unless we switch the \ to / in > the #include. We'd have to change countless files to do this. > > We have tried > -I'\home\yo\' > -I"\home\yo\" > -I\\home\\yo > -I\\home\\yo\\ > > We also looked through the gcc options for an option that says to flatten > all directories. > > Is there a way to do this without changing all our source files? >
