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Re: dll not found when "symlink" used?


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Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 04:39 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> I guess I'm looking for conformation that cygwin binaries do not
>>> honor the symlinks.
>>
>> Sure, cygwin binaries do. But *only* Cygwin binaries. And the
>> Windows DLL loaded isn't a Cygwin binary.
>
> The application I'm running is uic.exe, a binary I compiled under
> cygwin with gcc-3.2. The libqt-mt.dll, is a .dll I compiled under
> cygwin with gcc-3.2, so that should make both the binaries cygwin
> binaries, correct?

Yep. But the bit of code that links them together (i.e. an internal part of
Windows) isn't.
Therefore, symlinks to DLLs *do not work*. Unavoidably.

Max.


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