Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/07/12/15:51:13
Steve,
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:56:00PM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
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> From: Jason Tishler [SMTP:Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com]
> [Steve Jorgensen] Doh! Right, .a is not a shared library on any platform.
> I take it that Cygwin actually uses .dll as its normal shared library
> type, then, and does not have its own unique shared library type?
Yes, but Cygwin is really just a Win32 DLL so it can't have its own
unique shared library type.
> I presume this library is called pq.dll on Cygwin to avoid name conflicts
> with libpq.dll if both exist on a single system?
That would be my guess too. This is an example of why Chuck Wilson
proposed prefixing Cygwin DLLs with "cyg" to prevent this kind of conflict.
> [Steve Jorgensen] I'm figuring (not that I know what I'm talking about)
> that if I want to use autoconf/automake, I should try to use gcc. I don't
> know much about these tools yet, but I imagine teaching them to handle
> Windows paths would be a big hassle and not worth the trouble since gcc
> -mno-cygwin is an available option.
For reason like the above, I prefer to use Cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin over
Mingw.
Jason
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