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Subject: Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?
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On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:38:53PM -0500, Lev Bishop wrote:
> FAQ candidate? Either of Eric's explanations seem spot on, to me. And
> this question does come up fairly regularly.

In the FAQ, I think it would be a good idea to mention that this
limitation makes it impossible (outside of setup.exe) to package an 
application based on Cygwin and guarantee that it runs on the host 
machine. That is, it's impossible to determine if the cygwin1.dll is
already on the machine.

Bob Rossi

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