[cdt-dev] Is path to cygwin automatically added?

[Stefan Weber <weberste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm having Cygwin and MinGW installed on my computer. I want CDT to use 
the MinGW tools. To achieve this, I thought it's enough to make sure 
that the path to the MinGW binaries is listed before the path to the 
Cygwin binaries in Windows' PATH variable (I actually even removed the 
path to cygwin...)

When building from the command line (using the Makefiles generated by 
Eclipse), everything is fine, i.e. the tools from MinGW ar used. 
However, when using Eclipse to build the project, it uses the cygwin tools.
I could track down the problem and found out, that Eclipse added the 
path to the Cygwin libraries to the PATH variable itself. And as the 
cygwin path comes first, CDT consequently uses the cygwin tools. (I 
found that in Project -> Properties -> C/C++ Build -> Configuration 
Settings -> Environment. There, under System Variables the PATH variable 
is listed with the above problem.)

To sum up, when I check the PATH variable in Windows' environment 
variables dialog and also on the command line, it does NOT contain the 
path to the cygwin binaries. However, in Eclipse the path is suddenly there.

Does anybody have an idea how this can be fixed, i.e. how I can remove 
the path to cygwin from the PATH variable that is used by Eclipse?

Thanks,

Stefan