Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20021031085832.02350ce8@pop.rcn.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT rcn DOT com Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:01:11 -0500 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Schn=F6rr=2C_Claudius_Dr=2E=22?= , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Q: DLLs and LD_LIBRARY_PATH In-Reply-To: <30E10C5E4EE6D31181EF00508B8B5BBB117AEE@EXCHANGE-SERVER.ddg .de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g9VE25G29957 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. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/