[ITP] udis86

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun Apr 27 14:51:29 GMT 2025


On 25/04/2025 17:44, Philippe Baril Lecavalier via Cygwin-apps wrote:
[...]
> 
> Question (for those who know way more than I do about this science):
> If you have an application that ships with some dll, are you required
> to split it as a lib* package (here libudis), or can that be part of
> the main package "udis86" along with the binary? Suppose there is no
> expected circumstance where one would use the library without the
> application.

Generally, yes.

Exceptions to this rule are generally where the shared library isn't 
soversioned (i.e. is named cygfoo.dll rather than cygfoo-N.dll) so 
there's no reasonable way for anything else to be using it...



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