annoyance running mingw

[Dan Kegel]

David Fraser wrote:
> Seems to me the problem here is that mingw is passing these paths into
> Wine at all. The only apparent way to get to DOSFS_GetPathDrive is
> through DOSFS_GetFullName or DOSFS_GetShortPathName so either
> mingw is calling one of those functions with Unix path names or its calling
> some other Win32 API function with Unix path names which then calls
> one of those functions.
> But how would that work on Windows? Surely mingw should always convert
> unix paths to Windows paths *before* giving them to any Win32 function?

These are 100% windows paths.  No conversion is needed.
Wine is just confused because Mingw is using the / path
separator instead of the \ path separator.
It may be a surprise to some, but that works A-OK in
Windows.
- Dan

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