Build Failure on Cygwin Windows

[Michael Stahl]

On 12/04/12 08:18, Matúš Kukan wrote:
> Hi Johnny,
> 
> On 12 April 2012 07:31, Johnny Chen <johnny.uw at gmail.com> wrote:

>> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
>> 'c:/cygwinc:/cygwin/home/Johnny/libo/workdir/wntmsci12.pro/CxxObject/xml2cmp/source/xcd/main.o'
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what may have caused this?
> 
> It's most probably because you have LibreOffice sources in /home.
> I would think it works by now but obviously not. Maybe I will
> investigate why later.

rumor has it that putting the source in Cygwin home has never ever
worked, but i have no idea why.

> Sorry for this, preferred way is to have sources in C:/Libo or one
> directory lower but not too much.

yes paths need to be _short_ on Windows...

i've just added a warning here so hopefully less people fall into these
traps:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Windows_Build_Dependencies