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Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
- From: Pečiva Jan <peciva at fit dot vutbr dot cz>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:11:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
>> Hi,
>>
>> our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on
>> Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a
>> result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and
>> not cygfreetype.dll ?
>
> This is an old library from the XFree86-dll-compat package and the package
> is only required by program which have not been updated to the naming
> structure which is used for over year now.
Thanks for the response. I am glad that cyg prefix is planned to be used
everywhere. However, can you give me some hints when will be the package or the
DLL probably removed?
Thanks,
John