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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:40:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: dll not found when "symlink" used?
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Please keep mail on list.
>
> Bob Tanner <tanner AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 November 2002 04:39 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >>> I guess I'm looking for conformation that cygwin binaries do not
> >>> honor the symlinks.
> >>
> >> Sure, cygwin binaries do. But *only* Cygwin binaries. And the
> >> Windows DLL loaded isn't a Cygwin binary.
> >
> > The application I'm running is uic.exe, a binary I compiled under
> > cygwin with gcc-3.2. The libqt-mt.dll, is a .dll I compiled under
> > cygwin with gcc-3.2, so that should make both the binaries cygwin
> > binaries, correct?
>
> Yep. But the bit of code that links them together (i.e. an internal part of
> Windows) isn't.
> Therefore, symlinks to DLLs *do not work*. Unavoidably.
>
> Max.

FWIW, hard links do, if you're on an NT system.
	Igor
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