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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:01:11 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Q: DLLs and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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At 05:22 AM 10/31/2002, Schnörr, Claudius Dr. wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I try to build some libraries, which in turn create *.so shared libraries.
>
>According to my tests,
>- names of shared libraries under cygwin have to end in .dll,
>- the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not searched for .dlls
>
>Is this correct?


Yes, quite.


>Are there some workarounds to configure cygwin to behave like a unix-system
>with respect to shared libraries?


No.  Windows isn't UNIX and it doesn't support UNIX shared libraries.  
You can't just tweak it and make it work.  Sorry.

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