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Cygwin Path Error: Cannot find module 'C:\cygdrive\c\...'

I am using Cygwin on Windows 7 and it was working as expected until I updated it a couple of days ago.

Now when I try to run a makefile for my NodeJs app I get the errors about paths. In error stack I see all the paths have double reference to C drive:

C:\cygdrive\c\...

Update : Reproduced in Git bash, Windows command line and Cygwin shells.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Solution

  • Make sure the C:\cygdrive\c path is a native, Windows-style symbolic link to just C:\ as that is the expected behavior of that path.

    By default, cygwin creates a UNIX-style symbolic link, which won't work well in many cases. So you need to explicitly tell cygwin what to do here.

    Here's how, from inside of Cygwin:

    export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:native"
cd C:/cygdrive && rm -rf c && ln -s -v C:/ c