From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 88043 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2015 13:37:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 88033 invoked by uid 89); 8 Oct 2015 13:37:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,HK_NAME_FM_DR,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f181.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f181.google.com) (209.85.212.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:37:53 +0000 Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so28775801wic.1 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:37:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.211.39 with SMTP id mz7mr4181679wic.65.1444311470752; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tablet (dslb-084-057-065-116.084.057.pools.vodafone-ip.de. [84.57.65.116]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jd7sm24422261wjb.19.2015.10.08.06.37.48 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:37:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Dr Rainer Woitok X-Google-Original-From: Dr Rainer Woitok Received: by tablet (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:37:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <22038.29093.221000.863384@woitok.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:37:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Rainer.Woitok@Gmail.Com X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00089.txt.bz2 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 list. -- 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