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by snnn 3925 days ago
What if you start a java process in cygwin? Path names mess me up.
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yareally 3925 days ago
Not sure about Java, but Scala works fine for me in cygwin after doing this[1][2]. I'd have to have a more detailed example (that I can reproduce myself) of what gets messed up though if it's something beyond that, since I can't remember anymore exactly what else I had to do offhand.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17124689/i-really-would-l...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4468967/two-problems-with...

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joosters 3925 days ago
Cygwin does not alter the behaviour of existing programs. It is a DLL that can be compiled into new programs to provide lots of POSIX/Linux compatibility. It also comes shipped with lots of pre-compiled Linux binaries of common tools.

If you run your pre-existing JRE, its behaviour won't change. If you run a JRE compiled with cygwin (I've no idea if they provide one or not) then it will have UNIX-style path support.

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yareally 3924 days ago
Don't believe there is such a JRE. I mostly handle paths like I would normally on windows and they work ok on the JVM:

"c:/whatever/another_dir/some.file"

There's also cygpath to convert between Windows/Unix style paths: http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/html/cygpath.html

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