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From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke-nospam AT tibco DOT com>
Subject: Re: how to get my app to find a dynamic library
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Thomas Preisler wrote:
> My main app 'main.c' is in one directory and I have a dynamic library 
> 'cygmylib.dll' in a subdiretory 'tmp'. I can compile and link my main 
> app fine but having trouble running it. It complaints about not being 
> able to find the dynamic library. I have tried just about everything 
> from -L, -Wl,-rpath using relative or absolute paths on the compile line 
> to setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH at run time, but to no avail.

Seeing as how this is Cygwin, and not Interix or A Real *nix, did you 
try setting PATH? (PATH="./tmp:$PATH" ./app # this is one line)

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Matthew
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