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On 5/03/2017 18:36, Daniel Santos wrote:

> Is this a documentation error then? (from 
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html)
>
>     The LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is used by the Cygwin 
> function
>     dlopen () as a list of directories to search for .dll files to 
> load. This
>     environment variable is converted from Windows format to UNIX 
> format when a
>     Cygwin process first starts. Most Cygwin applications do not make 
> use of
>     the dlopen () call and do not need this variable.

No.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used by dlopen ().

PATH is one of the locations searched by Windows when starting 
applications, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18.aspx

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