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Sourcery G++ does not require Cygwin. You can use Cygwin, but you do not have to do so.

Because Sourcery G++ does not depend on Cygwin, it prints pathnames using the usual Windows conventions (e.g., using drive letters and backslashes), and does not understand Cygwin's synthetic mount points.

You can use the cygpath command to translate Cygwin pathnames to Windows pathnames. For example, if you are using the Cygwin shell, you might invoke the compiler like:

${prefix}-gcc -c $(cygpath -w /path/to/file.c)

to compile file.c.

Sourcery G++ can also automatically translate Cygwin paths for you if you set the CYGPATH environment variable. In this case, when opening files, Sourcery G++ tries each pathname first as an ordinary Windows pathname, and, then, if the file cannot be opened, it tries again by interpreting the pathname as a Cygwin pathname.

You can set CYGPATH either to the string cygpath to use the cygpath found in your PATH, or to the absolute pathname of the translation program to use.