From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26347 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2015 13:12:35 -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 26336 invoked by uid 89); 27 Mar 2015 13:12:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lb0-f177.google.com Received: from mail-lb0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-lb0-f177.google.com) (209.85.217.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:12:34 +0000 Received: by lbcmq2 with SMTP id mq2so63222501lbc.0 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:12:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.17.8 with SMTP id k8mr17766307lbd.26.1427461950884; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.78.130 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:12:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:23:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Compatibility of binaries built with one version of cygwin with other versions of cygwin From: Bryan Berns To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00488.txt.bz2 "Guaranteed" might be a strong word - especially given the lack of a guarantor; probably depends on whether the programmer has had to workaround any nuances in the Cygwin library that may have changed in later versions. I think the library function exports have been the same for awhile and I've personally had pretty good lucking simply dropping in a new DLL file without issues. -- 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