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From: Mark Keil <Mark DOT Keil AT cportcorp DOT com>
To: jonadab AT bright DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: CYGWIN1.DLL
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:52:35 -0400
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I'm curious

Just why are Microsoft's dynamic linking mechanism problematic?

And what are the implications and why do you
think that Cygwin uses dynamic linking?

Thanks, Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonadab the Unsightly One [mailto:jonadab AT bright DOT net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:11 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: CYGWIN1.DLL



# I agree 100% with most of what was written here.  In fact, I think it
# think it might even be nice to add it to the documentation.
# 
# However, I do not agree that static linking is generally a 
# universally good idea for any platform.  

I was talking about Microsoft platforms specifically, because
Microsoft's dynamic linking mechanism is problematic.  Any
platform of course may implement something (e.g., dynamic 
libraries) well or poorly.

I also understand (or think I understand) why Cygwin uses 
dynamic linking, and it doesn't bother me tremendously,
but it does have some implications -- which are really 
Microsoft's fault, but impact Cygwin nonetheless.  Some
of these implications come home to roost when we start
talking about different people distributing different
packages that are built against different versions of 
Cygwin.  There is potential there for problems.

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