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From:	"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried AT heintze DOT com>
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Subject:	dll v so?
Date:	Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:03:42 -0700
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I'm confused about dll v. so and cygwin. I've used the documentation to
create and load dlls with g++.

However, I notice that Apache Httpd uses ".so" files. Is the choice to
produce ".dll" or ".so" files purely a matter of who is going to load them?

Thanks,
Siegfried



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