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Re: Q: DLLs and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Schnörr, Claudius Dr." <Claudius dot Schnoerr at ddg dot de>,"'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:01:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: Q: DLLs and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
At 05:22 AM 10/31/2002, Schnörr, Claudius Dr. wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I try to build some libraries, which in turn create *.so shared libraries.
>
>According to my tests,
>- names of shared libraries under cygwin have to end in .dll,
>- the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not searched for .dlls
>
>Is this correct?
Yes, quite.
>Are there some workarounds to configure cygwin to behave like a unix-system
>with respect to shared libraries?
No. Windows isn't UNIX and it doesn't support UNIX shared libraries.
You can't just tweak it and make it work. Sorry.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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