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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 8 20:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Something else I'm wondering about is this.
>>
>> Right now the executable contains just the name of a DLL it is
>> linked against. Does the PE/COFF format allow to store a relative
>> path in the executable? Something like, say,
>> "..\\lib64\\libfoo.dll"? If that is possible (I have really no
>> idea) wouldn't that allow to have the DLLs in /usr/lib64, given
>> that /usr/bin is in $PATH anyway?
>
> Just as an additonal data point, if you give a relative path to
> LoadLibrary, it appends the relative path to "every token in the DLL
> search list". See the 7th paragraph in the "Remarks" section of
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684175%28VS.85%29.aspx If
> that would also work for DLLs an executable is linked against...
Something worth testing. When I read that paragraph I went searching
hoping I could find it documented but couldn't find any other relative
information about the LOAD TIME dll search path.
Earnie