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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: curl, libcurl, libcomprex, leakbug (was:Re: Packaging cURL for cygwin distribution ???)
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:04:46 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>

> >I noticed your example had a DLL name of cygcurl-2.dll. The DLLs (and
..
> It is not important how the dll is named, as long as libtool is used.
> The executables know how their dll is named to find it.
> Also these names were 'created' by libtool.
> And it is a 'standard' for cygwin, the static lib is called lib...a
> the importlib is called lib...dll.a the def is called lib...def and
> the dll is called cyg..-0.dll
> Libtool uses the file lib...la to look for the names.

The -x is the binary API compatability index. See the libtool
documentation.

Rob