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Re: Ugrent !! Reg. Executing the EXE generated by Cygwin


* Lee (Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:40:25 +0000)
> > There can be only one cygwin1.dll on the machine, put where it's
> > supposed to be by using the Cygwin setup.exe. You can't just put
> > another copy of cygwin1.dll somewhere else on that machine.
> 
> Yes, you can.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586.aspx
> Dynamic-Link library search order
> A system can contain multiple versions of the same dynamic-link
> library (DLL).

True for DLLs in general - false for cygwin1.dll. Read 
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.multiple-copies

Thorsten


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