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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:25:07 -0500
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Subject: Re: Why 2 DLL names?
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Roy Clemmons wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows.
>After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were
>created:
>
>libxxxxxx.dll.a
>cygxxxxxx-1.dll
>  
>
libxxxxxx.dll.a is the import library
cygxxxxxx-1.dll is the dll

Read
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html
for a more complete explanation.

>I guess I was only expecting: libxxxxxx.dll.
>
>Why were the 2 names generated and why the "cyg" prefix on one of
>them?  Also, which one should I use?
>
>Thank you for you patience with me as I learn the cygwin environment.
>
>Roy
>
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