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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:09:42 +0200
From: Torsten Giebl <wizard AT syntheticsw DOT com>
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Subject: Prefix like cyg and lib of DLLs ?
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Hello !


Where does the prefix of DLLs for example
cyg* and lib* come from ? Is it something that
is internal fixed or can i change that ?

That a library has the cyg prefix for example
cygpng is okay to me, as it shows it was compiled for
the special usage with CYGWIN, but i would like to get
rid of the lib prefix when compiling with -mno-cygwin.

When creating DLLs by hand with gcc -shared -o .... i can name the
DLL as i want, but what is for example with libpng, where is defined
that the DLL it creates, is called libpng... ?

DLLs created with Visual C++, usually don't come with the lib prefix
and i am trying to go with the same name.


Thanks.


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