[CMake] Cygwin drive paths are killing me

[Marco Atzeri]

On 11/06/2014 15:25, Eric Wing wrote:
> I am currently in this unholy trinity of needing to use Android on
> Windows through Cygwin.
> Basically, the Android NDK requires Cygwin if you want to run it on
> Windows. I'm using my fork of the Android-CMake toolchain originally
> from OpenCV and trying to generate "Unix Makefiles" with CMake. I
> provide a -C initial_cache list to try to pre-populate my dependency
> list since this is a cross-compile.
>
> This is really ugly stuff. I thought I was on the verge of finally
> getting it working, but I keep bouncing back and forth between file
> path problems:
>
> - Cygwin returns absolute paths like /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)
> - But CMake can't seem to resolve the /cygdrive/c part and when trying
> to access files in this form, it fails with 'file not found'

Hi Eric,

1) don't use path with space in names.

2) cygwin version of CMAKE perfectly understand /cygdrive/c


> Thanks,
> Eric

Regards
Marco