Cygwin & MinGW

[TmX]

I have Cygwin & MinGW installed on my laptop.
In the PATH variable , Cygwin has the higher priority.
But sometimes I want to invoke the MinGW GCC from the command line withoug CD-ing to it's installation directory

Any suggestion ?

[Ken Fitlike]

Change the path environment variable for that process i.e.,

set path=mingw_path;%path%

A batch/cmd(*.bat or *.cmd) file is useful in this regard as you can do other stuff, too, such as invoke make or other tools if you want.

[maxorator]

I have my own "command" directory, where I put programs I want to run throguh command line. So there will be only my bat files and some console executables. You can make a bat file called "cyg.bat":

SET PATH=cygwin_path;%path%

and "mgw.bat":

SET PATH=mingw_path;%path%

So you can easily switch the path between Cygwin and MinGW by just "cyg" or "mgw".

[Frobozz]

Of course he could just have the batch file pass on the compiling as well:

SET OLDPATH=%path%
SET PATH=mingw_path;%path%
g++ %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
SET PATH=OLDPATH