Dynamic linking.. or??

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> Yep it is in cygwin.rules.. Hmm ahh there we have a dll.. Hmm 
> how does everything work?? 
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> Consider me doing 
>  gcc -o myapp myapp.o -lX11 -lXaw
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> On solaris it links with libXaw.so, which probably 
> automatically loads libXpm.so during runtime.
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> Checking an strace of the above on cygwin shows that it looks 
> for libXaw.dll.a, fails and then loads libXaw.a, thats why it 
^^^^^ huh? Who looks for libXaw.dll.a?  We have no such thing.  
Compiling libXaw.dll is not a good idea due to design of
DLLs which M$ opted.


> wants us to include -lXpm, it _doesn't_ link dynamically!!

You can send a patch if you have an idea how to do it. :-)  For now you must
add
-lXpm -lXaw -lX11 to llinker

Suhaib

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> So as developer, compiling apps, can I link dynamic?? (is 
> libXaw.dll the same as libXaw.dll.a?? Suppose that the cygwin 
> FAQ will answer
> that)
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