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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:34:48 -0500
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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* crossposted to cygwin ml in case my opinion is not shared by the
   cygwin developers. *

>>that would be either the location of the started executable or
>>everything in the PATH variable. As the
>
> and 4 other locations.  Windows looks for DLLs this way:
>
>   1. The directory from where the current process was loaded.
>   2. The current directory
>   3. The Windows system directory (cf. GetSystemDirectory)
>   4. The 16 bit system directory
>   5. The Windows directory (cf. GetWindowsDirectory)
>   6. The directories listen in $PATH.
Thanks, but as the dll location is defined by the cygwin installation
(cf. www.cygwin.com) nothing except 1., 2. and 6. is an option.

> Given that this DLL is requirement for many application, you should
> install it into the Windows directory.  Or modify cygwin to allow
> loading of that DLL from a different place; I bet there is at least an
> environment variable to do this.

This will never happen for the cygwin distribution. The dll lives in
<cygwin main directory>/bin. Period. This was deliberately chosen in the
past and will most propably not change to please one package.

As the gnupg package maintainer for cygwin I can live with the mentioned
patch, gpg will just work for people who install it as a cygwin package.

All people that compile a version on their own will have to use
exec-path or (on their own risk) copy the dll around.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen

      Volker

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