From: zow AT mdbs DOT com (Zow Terry Brugger) Subject: RE: b19 and cygwin.dll 16 Feb 1998 21:50:10 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD3AF4.8AD359A0.zow.cygnus.gnu-win32@mdbs.com> Reply-To: "zow AT mdbs DOT com" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'Andrew Lipnitsky'" , "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Lipnitsky Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 6:00 AM To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: b19 and cygwin.dll ..... continuation of the b19 discussion..... Hi All! I have Source Navigator lite and gnuwin32 b18 installed on my computer. So cygwin.dll is placed in 3 points. Someone please explain again why the dll is getting installed in multiple places? I only have one in H-i386-cygwin/bin and everything seems to run just fine. In fact, there should not be more than one copy of a dll on a system, or the one that will be used is undefined (this caused some major problems during our last project: we ended up putting a version check in our dll so that an older one would not be used). I think that to place cygwin.dll in somewhere like c:\windows\system32 would be quite good idea. At first, it would result the reduction of disk space. At second, it would result the reduction of length PATH variable . And at last, it is general(common) practice to place shared resources in c:\windows\system32 . Point well taken, however, while I agree that all three points have validity, only having one copy in the gnuwin32 bin directory serves the first two just as well. The last one I disagree with, simply because it adds yet another file to the mess of 1159 I already have in there. I think that if a program can keep all of it's dll's outside of system32, it should. Andrew Lipnitsky My $.02, Terry - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".