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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:08:40 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Dynamically load a shared lib created using gcc/Cygwin
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Yu-Cheng Chou wrote:

> I made a mistake in the previous reply.
> Here I state my question again.
> 
> mylib.dll was built using gcc/cygwin based on some library that
> might depends on cygwin1.dll.
> I don't want to load cygwin1.dll explicitly, but I do need to load
> mylib.dll dynamically at run-time in an application which was built by
> Visual C++ or .NET.

I don't think it matters.  If you expect at any point in time to load
cygwin1.dll into your process, either directly or by loading something
that depends on it, then you need to initialize and load it as stated in
the FAQ.

Brian

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