cygwin, perl, dos version of abspath()?

Question

When running cygwin perl, is there a way to get the DOS absolute path from a cygwin path? Ideally it would also resolve cygwin symlinks.

E.g.:

'/cygdrive/c/foo' -> 'C://foo'

Answer 1

From a shell:

cygpath -wa /cygdrive/c/foo

From perl:

system("cygpath", "-wa", "/cygdrive/c/foo")

I haven't tested this with symlinks.