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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> This isn't a Cygwin-specific thing.  That's the way Windows works.
> Order is dependent here for the same reason that you can't do:
> 
> gcc -Lfoo program-that-uses-foo.o
> 
> on Windows.

  I'm at least a little bit surprised.  My first thought was "Calling
LoadLibrary pulls in all dependent DLLs for you automatically".  (But I didn't
stop to figure out how that works with import libs yet.)

    cheers,
      DaveK

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