Hi all, I am not familiar with the finer details of a Makefile. I am having issues with escaping backslashes in dos paths in the Makefile of an app I am trying to port to win32 via cygwin. I am compiling the app using gcc under cygwin, but then moveing it directly into a win32 environment. Things work fine as long as I pass the absolute paths to conf files in via command line switches. However, the default pathing in the compiled binary is all messed up. The problem appears to stem from the backslash desired by dos vs the foreslash by *nix. The Makefile contains vars which setup the default pathing. These vars appear to be sub'd into the cpp files at compile time (I'm really guessing here). I have tried double escaping the backslashes in the paths because I am told that the Makefile consumes one escape sequence itself when passing the vars to the compiler. This should leave one set of escape sequences for the compiler to consume when generating the binary (if my thinking is correct). But what actually appears in the binary (visible via a hex editor) is absolute pathing with no slashes at all... :-( Here are the vars as they are assigned in the Makefile: DGBINDIR = c:\\\\dansguardian\\\\sbin DGCONFDIR = c:\\\\dansguardian\\\\etc\\\\dansguardian DGCONFFILE = c:\\\\dansguardian\\\\etc\\\\dansguardian\\\\dansguardian.conf DGDATADIR = c:\\\\dansguardian\\\\share\\\\dansguardian DGLIBDIR = c:\\\\dansguardian\\\\lib\\\\dansguardian DGLOGLOCATION = c:\\\\dansguardian\\\\var\\\\log\\\\dansguardian DGPIDDIR = c:\\\\dansguardian\\\\var\\\\run Any help would be greatly appriciated. I may be completely off target here so feel free to correct me. Thanks, Chris
