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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:17:53 -0500
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From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from "cygFOO-version.dll" to "FOO.dll"?
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At 10:02 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
>>At 01:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Larry Hall [mailto:lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com] 
>>>> 
>>>> Chaos.  
>>>> 
>>>> Windows does not support loading of DLLs through links.
>>>
>>>Thanks Larry, another validation of my distrust of windoze :-)
>>
>>
>>OK, well then I guess I should do a little work to dispel some of your
>>distrust. :-)
>>
>>After rereading this thread, I realize I'm wrong about this. :-(  When I
>>originally read the comment about linking, I thought "symbolic link", which 
>>is done so often with .so's on Linux/Unix.  That won't work because the 
>>Windows loader will not load DLLs through Cygwin's symbolic links.  However,
>>the original response did not include the '-s' flag for 'ln'.  Without it,
>>you get a "hard link" on NTFS formatted partitions and a copy everywhere 
>>else.  Windows will load either of these as a DLL (no surprise in the second
>>case at least ;-) ).
>>
>>Sorry for the confusion (mine and that which I caused).
>
>Even if it was "ln -s", it's hardly fair to blame windows for not honoring
>a cygwin invention -- symbolic links.


Aye, that it would!  



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