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Re: Question...


Hi Ben,

You wrote:

>> >I send a program that i compiled here for a friend... He said that this is
>> >asking for the file cygwin.dll ... To run my program the other person has
>> >to have this dll???
>> Yep, he has to have this DLL in the same directory the executable is
>> in. It contains the UNIX/POSIX-Emulation-Layer that's been developed
>> to make porting of UNIX Applications to NT as easy as possible.
>What's wrong with having the DLL in a directory that is listed in the PATH
>environment variable?
Nothing of course. I just forgot to mention that this is also
possible. ;)

Sorry.

bye

Michael
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