DLL naming conventions

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Chris,

Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:

CF> Here's the convention that makes sense to me "Cygwin's DLLs are named
CF> similarly to their counterparts on UNIX so that a library named libz.so
CF> on UNIX is named libz.dll under Cygwin.  Under the bushwah GNU porting
CF> layer, similar libraries are named bushwalibz.dll."

    You missed it! You missed it! "Bushwah GNU porting layer" uses
'libfoo.so' as the name for its DLLs! Well, but now I think: wasn't it
too arrogant? ;-)

CF> Works for me.

    Great!

CF> cgf

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Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist
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