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 X-Originating-IP: [150.101.123.92] X-Originating-Email: [tilps@hotmail.com] X-Sender: tilps@hotmail.com From: "Gareth Pearce" To: "'Roy Clemmons'" , Subject: RE: Why 2 DLL names? Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:21:28 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Dec 2003 13:21:30.0305 (UTC) FILETIME=[82DEB310:01C3C88E] X-IsSubscribed: yes > > Greetings, > > Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows. > After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were > created: > > libxxxxxx.dll.a > cygxxxxxx-1.dll > > I guess I was only expecting: libxxxxxx.dll. > > Why were the 2 names generated and why the "cyg" prefix on one of > them? Also, which one should I use? The first is not a dll - its an import library(I think?) Cyg prefix is chosen to clearly delimit mingw dll's from cygwin dll's - since, for example, zlib comes in both cygwin and mingw versions, and naming them the same would cause conflicts. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/