Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20021031085832.02350ce8@pop.rcn.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.rcn.com Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:01:11 -0500 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Schn=F6rr=2C_Claudius_Dr=2E=22?= , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Q: DLLs and LD_LIBRARY_PATH In-Reply-To: <30E10C5E4EE6D31181EF00508B8B5BBB117AEE@EXCHANGE-SERVER.ddg .de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g9VE25G29957 At 05:22 AM 10/31/2002, Schnörr, Claudius Dr. wrote: >Hello, > >I try to build some libraries, which in turn create *.so shared libraries. > >According to my tests, >- names of shared libraries under cygwin have to end in .dll, >- the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not searched for .dlls > >Is this correct? Yes, quite. >Are there some workarounds to configure cygwin to behave like a unix-system >with respect to shared libraries? No. Windows isn't UNIX and it doesn't support UNIX shared libraries. You can't just tweak it and make it work. Sorry. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/