From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17325 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2004 14:50:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17270 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2004 14:49:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.prospeed.net) (12.46.111.140) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Dec 2004 14:49:53 -0000 Received: from enterprise-e.cygwin.com (lhall.prospeed.net [12.46.110.44] (may be forged)) by mail.prospeed.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBMEndq0017492; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:49:47 -0500 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20041222093650.04b42c18@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:50:00 -0000 To: "Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB" , "Cygwin List" From: Larry Hall Subject: RE: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from "cygFOO-version.dll" to "FOO.dll"? In-Reply-To: <0C7AD907113E984F9C2AF0B651D0D3DE57713A@exmid04.africa.ente rprise.root> References: <0C7AD907113E984F9C2AF0B651D0D3DE57713A@exmid04.africa.enterprise.root> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00748.txt.bz2 At 01:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Larry Hall [mailto:lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com] >> >> Chaos. >> >> Windows does not support loading of DLLs through links. > >Thanks Larry, another validation of my distrust of windoze :-) OK, well then I guess I should do a little work to dispel some of your distrust. :-) After rereading this thread, I realize I'm wrong about this. :-( When I originally read the comment about linking, I thought "symbolic link", which is done so often with .so's on Linux/Unix. That won't work because the Windows loader will not load DLLs through Cygwin's symbolic links. However, the original response did not include the '-s' flag for 'ln'. Without it, you get a "hard link" on NTFS formatted partitions and a copy everywhere else. Windows will load either of these as a DLL (no surprise in the second case at least ;-) ). Sorry for the confusion (mine and that which I caused). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/