Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:45:19 -0500 To: GNUWin32 Subject: Re: dll-problems Message-ID: <20000331104519.D910@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, GNUWin32 References: <38E3683B.B406811E@enea.se> <38E444E7.21103147@uniweb.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <38E444E7.21103147@uniweb.se>; from jens@uniweb.se on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:25:43AM +0200 On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:25:43AM +0200, Jens Yllman wrote: > I don't know exactly how cygwin is linked to the .exe. But it is >probably as I call it staticly. Which means that the system loads it for ^^^^^^^^ >you on startup. And the system looks in the enviroment variable PATH. If >it is not there then you can not start the program. I think WinNT also >looks in the current directory and the /winnt/system32 even if not in >the PATH. This is a correct summation except that cygwin is loaded "dynamically" not "staticly". cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com