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Date:  Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:24:05 -0800
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David Xiao wrote:

> I found that my library.dll is *only* dependent on "cygwin1.dll",
> though I can not simply put them into same directory to make them
> work. Is there any alternative suggestion? Thanks a lot!

This is a frequently asked question. See http://www.cygwin.com/faq, and 
from there, to this link: 
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.msvs-mingw

The general idea is: (a) it's hard, and (b) it's legally tricky.


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