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 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:02:32 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from "cygFOO-version.dll" to "FOO.dll"? Message-ID: <20041222150232.GA4002@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0C7AD907113E984F9C2AF0B651D0D3DE57713A@exmid04.africa.enterprise.root> <6.2.0.14.0.20041222093650.04b42c18@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041222093650.04b42c18@pop.prospeed.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 01:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Larry Hall [mailto:lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com] >>> >>> Chaos. >>> >>> Windows does not support loading of DLLs through links. >> >>Thanks Larry, another validation of my distrust of windoze :-) > > >OK, well then I guess I should do a little work to dispel some of your >distrust. :-) > >After rereading this thread, I realize I'm wrong about this. :-( When I >originally read the comment about linking, I thought "symbolic link", which >is done so often with .so's on Linux/Unix. That won't work because the >Windows loader will not load DLLs through Cygwin's symbolic links. However, >the original response did not include the '-s' flag for 'ln'. Without it, >you get a "hard link" on NTFS formatted partitions and a copy everywhere >else. Windows will load either of these as a DLL (no surprise in the second >case at least ;-) ). > >Sorry for the confusion (mine and that which I caused). Even if it was "ln -s", it's hardly fair to blame windows for not honoring a cygwin invention -- symbolic links. cgf -- 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/