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On Nov 25 11:13, John Emmas wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen"
> Sent: 25 November 2008 10:43
> Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>
>> $PATH is what you want and if you examine /bin resp. /usr/bin, you see
>> that Cygwin puts all shared libs there for the above reason.  /lib resp.
>> /usr/lib only contain the static libs and the shared link stubs
>> necessary for the linker at build time.
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH only has a meaning in Cygwin's dlopen() implementation,
>> when loading shared libs at runtime.
>>
> Thanks Corinna.  AFAIK my development IDE won't allow me to direct the link
> stubs to a different folder from the shared objects (unless I copy them, of
> course).  So I've just added cygwin's /usr/lib to my path.  This makes it
> work the same way as my 2 x Linux distros which will probably avoid
> confusion in the long run.

I don't think so.  The installation of shared libs into /usr/bin is a
long standing and expected behaviour on Cygwin.  By installing into
/usr/lib and requiring to set $PATH you're adding confusion, IMHO.
In the long run you will be better off by investing some time into
tweaking your development environment, rather than installing in a
non-standard location.  But that's just me, of course...


Corinna

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