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Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 2004 07:24:42 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:09:40AM +0200, Peter Ekberg wrote:
>I have read several messages stating that dlopen does not work for dlls
>that depend on cygwin1.dll.
>(e.g. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg01056.html).
>I have also understood that this is due to some structures not being
>initialized in that case.
>
>Is this dlopen problem limited to non-cygwin apps? I.e. is it true
>that an app that depends directly on the cygwin1.dll is incapable of
>dlopening dlls that depend on cygwin1.dll?

No, it is not true.  dlopen would be pretty worthless if it didn't work
in a standard cygwin program.

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