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Subject: cygxxx.dll or xxx.dll?
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Hello,

I tried this tutorial: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html

The DLL source is "mydll.c". The DLL is linked with "gcc -o myprog
myprog.c -L./ -lmydll".

For the DLL I tried different names:

* mydll.dll
* cygmydll.dll
* xmydll.dll

"mydll.dll" and "cygmydll.dll" are found by "-lmydll".  "xmydll.dll"
isn't found by "-lmydll" but by "-lxmydll".

It seems the "cyg" prefix is build into the linker upstream.

What is the official policy to name DLL? Cygports with "cyg" prefix,
other ones without?

Al

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