On Aug 24, 2011, at 1:52 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> Is there any error message at all from the build after the call to mt.exe?
>
> From your command prompt after the build fails what is the output from "where
> mt.exe"?
Because, after all, one of the most important bits of UN*X functionality EVAR is the ability to rewind or space forward/backwards or erase a mag tape from the command line:
http://cygwin.com/packages/mt/
http://linux.die.net/man/1/mt
If that's installed, the "mt.exe" it's running might be the (GPL'ed reimplementation of?) the Good Old BSD "mt" command, rather than something actually generally useful to developers:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa375649(v=vs.85).aspx
If the Cygwin package containing "mt" is installed, you might have to tweak your search path to look at the directory in which the Windows SDK programs are located *before* looking at the directories in which Cygwin binaries are located, so you get the right "mt".
