>If it is a native (doesn't require cygwin1.dll) then yes, wx won't >be able to read the Cygwin POSIX paths.
I compiled wx it under Cygwin wx libraries are are in /usr/local/lib/ Everything works as expected, only some programs won't start because of this issue, or throw error about missing resource file if file is located beneath /usr/lib/ Please see this output from python interpreter: ======================================== $ python Python 2.6.8 (unknown, Jun 9 2012, 11:30:32) [GCC 4.5.3] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import wx >>> wx.Image.CanRead('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png') True >>> wximg = >>> wx.Image('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png', >>> wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY) 14:36:44: Error: Can't load image from file '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png': file does not exist. >>> ======================================== Only wx has this issue for some reason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple