Re[2]: DLL naming conventions

[Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>]

Paul Sokolovsky writes:
 > GIMP's stupid shrink-wrapped installer drop its to
 > windows/system).

No it doesn't. (It did at some point, a long time ago.) Currently it
puts the DLLs in \Program Files\Common Files\GNU.

Currently the GIMP for Windows does not use DLLs for the JPEG, Zlib or
TIFF libraries, precisely because of the lack of consensus in naming
etc. And if there is anything to learn from this discussion, it is
that it is best to stick to static libraries in the future, too...

One point that has not been brought up here is that it is not enough
that some library's API is stable, like for instance zlib. The ABI
must also be identical in order to be able to share the same DLL
between applications from different sources. With this I am thinking
of struct packing issues, i.e. whether gcc compilations use
-fnative-struct (MSVC-compatible bitfield packing) or not.

Sorry that this is mostly off-topic to the cygwin list.

--tml


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