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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:35:03 +0100 (BST)
From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it>
Subject: R: cygxxx.dll or xxx.dll?
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--- Mer 13/10/10, Al  ha scritto:

> Hello,
>=20
> I tried this tutorial: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html
>=20
> The DLL source is "mydll.c". The DLL is linked with "gcc -o
> myprog
> myprog.c -L./ -lmydll".
>=20
> For the DLL I tried different names:
>=20
> * mydll.dll
> * cygmydll.dll
> * xmydll.dll
>=20
> "mydll.dll" and "cygmydll.dll" are found by
> "-lmydll".=A0 "xmydll.dll"
> isn't found by "-lmydll" but by "-lxmydll".
>=20
> It seems the "cyg" prefix is build into the linker
> upstream.
>=20
> What is the official policy to name DLL? Cygports with
> "cyg" prefix,
> other ones without?

cyg prefix for cygwin, to avoid clash with lib prefix of minwg

>=20
> Al

Marco


=20=20

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