Re: [Caml-list] Building MSVC ports: coreutils link conflict

[Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com>]

On 07/14/2015 06:28 PM, David Allsopp wrote:
> As far as I'm aware, when started in the usual way as a login shell,
> Cygwin's bash will always prefix PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH ... so I
> was surprised to find no mention of this issue in the build instructions -
> is it simply that everyone who builds the MSVC port just curses at this
> point, alters their PATH and carries on, or is there an alternate, better
> way of setting up the build environment?

FWIW, the way we (=LexiFi) work is that our .bashrc/.bash_profile 
scripts are responsible for setting up the LIB and DIR env variables for 
MSVC and prepending the correct directories in front of the PATH.  (They 
also define aliases to switch between the 32- and 64-bit toolchains.) 
We don't rely on .bat files shipped by Microsoft.  It's true that it had 
become messy to support various versions of Visual Studio and of Windows 
SDK, but we still prefer to know exactly how the environment is set up.

Alain