Re: Strange errors running gcc tests on Cygwin

[cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>]

On 3/6/2017 9:03 PM, Daniel Santos wrote:
> On 03/05/2017 05:08 AM, David Billinghurst wrote:
>> No.
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used by dlopen ().
>>
>> PATH is one of the locations searched by Windows when starting
>> applications, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18.aspx
> 
> Thank you for this clarification.  So load-time dlls are resolved (in
> ntdll.exe or some such) using PATH and run-time dlls loaded with
> dlopen() are resolved with LD_LIBRARY_PATH?  I'm obviously not intimate
> with Cygwin's architecture, but I'm guessing that explicitly using
> LoadLibrary is still going to use PATH.

You're obviously not intimate with Windows either.  The search algorithm
in Windows is more involved than PATH.  You need to study more.

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