Nelson B. Bolyard wrote: > Jamie Nicolson wrote: > >>I think the makefiles will only work in environments that >>silently convert slash to backslash--this probably means you need a UNIX >>emulation package such as cygwin or MKS. >> > > AFAIK, MKS does not ever "silently convert slash to backslash".
This is correct. Microsoft's build tools accept slashes as directory separators as long as a pathname does not start with a slash. If a pathname begins with a slash, it is intepreted as a command-line option for the build tool. Wan-Teh
