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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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"RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> writes:

> In any case, I found that on Windows for gnat based development, I am
> not sure cygwin works that well. for example, the -I and other such
> specifications want to interpret the argument using the native
> directory separator ie "\" and not the unix like "/"

I prefer not to use -I etc; leave that sort of thig up to gnatmake,
which it does perfectly well.

You can of course have other problems using mixed Windows/Cygwin tools,
in our case with environment variables most of which get converted
properly by cygwin from the Windows set, but (if I remember correctly)
not tools such as gnatmake which don't understand /cygdrive/d/... and
need d:/... instead.

What we did was to get a tool to create .reg and .sh (and .el!) files
with equivalent and appropriate meanings: then you can double-click on
the .reg file for use on command shells, and thereafter source the .sh
file for cygwin shells from ~/.profile. A PITA to set up, but invisible
after it's done.