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From: Yucong Sun <sunyucong AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 21:56:02 +0800
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Subject: Re: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin
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I think symlink is a cygwin thing.  Windows won't find that DLL (just
like you won't find it using windows explorer.)

Windows only support loading DLL from project directory, or  system32
as far as I know.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok
<rainer DOT woitok AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm running  a program which requires a DLL  sitting in my "~/bin/" dir-
> ectory.  Since "~/bin/" is contained  in my "PATH" environment variable,
> everything works  as desired.   Recently I moved  the DLL elsewhere, re-
> placing it with a symbolic link in "~/bin/".  This caused the program to
> fail to locate the DLL.  Moving the DLL back in place caused the program
> to work again.
>
> Is this a Windows problem  (since DLLs are Windows  rather than Unix) or
> Cygwin's?   The link was created with the normal  "ln -s" command.  And,
> if that matters, Cygwin is running on Vista here.
>
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
>
> PS: Please also reply  to me personally,  as I'm not  subscribed to this
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