X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Y96LfX7JYyck+w1n mAK/oERovQaCa2DzKoZmcOyNZVOhWpkB+4ElwFURhDLjYnaCGbwIg+Ayx0MwxEX5 Fydo386AGHzI7NM4Wp5qy4iZTHuNAz2Sa7YNnqiowgRiWtqdEtTcm651WeRot1VH eaETXg9fo3sac40fpVGr2PnGWz8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=OFZbo2HNJkvKHufSlSQjVh kQBPw=; b=cHQd4ziOyN9a1KGg2m9XoX2iW0ILh2TbGB79KKcPyJv+GKt8gmFTQU 2zGZYawadfjIMu8pEVl/TmR5r9qz9vJKd1EjN/fvkxnFyXEe28x0gxPbv1QEZPLI 8qBdeKsfDaGPCEqYBwuRW6TswpMjCCysdqxKoHzkjTxUz6eyyBWSo= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Message-id: <519D8889.5070206@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 23:10:01 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Including full path to shared library in the executable file References: <20130522084711 DOT GU2406 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20130522145813 DOT GC8150 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20130522152450 DOT GA22259 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-reply-to: <20130522152450.GA22259@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 5/22/2013 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 22 10:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:47:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On May 21 21:43, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: >>>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: >>>> >>>>> My question is whether there is a way to include the full path to the .dll >>>>> while creating the .exe - much like how cmake "link_directories" or >>>>> "target_link_libraries" allows you to - for e.g. on Linux (an ldd on the >>>>> executable file shows the full path to the .so file and thus >>>>> precludes the need to explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH). While this is not a >>>>> cmake question (or a cmake mailing list) if you have experience solving >>>>> this problem using cmake, would appreciate those insights as well. >>>> >>>> I found this while looking for cygwin RPATH: >>>> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-October/017267.html. Perhaps >>>> the lack of RPATH support on Windows/Cygwin is the reason? >>> >>> RPATH is an ELF feature. Full paths to DLLs are not supported by the >>> PE/COFF executable format. Also, Cygwin DLLs are still loaded by the >>> Windows loader, so POSIX paths won't work, and full Windows paths won't >>> make much sense, given that Cygwin is not always installed into >>> C:\cygwin. >>> >>> The solution for this would be an ELF loader in Cygwin and a Cygwin >>> linker which produces ELF DLLs by default. But that's quite a big >>> project on its own and nobody seemed to have fun, time, or money, to >>> implement this. >> >> So, maybe *next* Thursday then? > > Alas, I still have no cat... Can someone *please* donate a cat for Corinna? -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple