wincvs and cygwin (tcl DLL naming issue)

[Reid Thompson]

my 2 cents, and what i believe is an easier and more appropriate 
solution ( think like you're on unix/linux) - for your cygwin 
bash/rxvt/etc terminals explicitely set the path in your .bashrc such 
that the cygwin binaries are found first -- and either do not add the 
cygwin binary paths to the windows path, or make sure that they are at 
the end.  i.e. when i open a cygwin terminal any call to a cygwin 
compiled application will find the cygwin binaries first, and vice versa 
for a windows terminal.



Daniel Atallah wrote:

>The problem lies in that anything that is linked
>against the native dll will not work with the cygwin
>dll. The problem is simple, the program will use the
>first matching dll that it finds in the search path.
>
>It isn't a wincvs (or gaim in my case) problem, there
>is nothing that they can really do to prevent it from
>happening (apart from some awful hack to not allow
>DLLs from paths that contain the word "cygwin" to be
>loaded, which wouldn't really fix the problem anyway).
>
>I think that the cygwin tcl people *should* care
>because the inverse problem could also apply -
>something that wants to use the cygwin TCL dll could
>in turn find the native dll because it is first in the
>path.  
>
>Furthermore, there is an easy solution to the problem
>that will make the problem go away (unless i'm missing
>something) - rename cygwin's dll to "cygtcl8x.dll"
>instead of "tcl8x.dll".
>
>-Daniel
>--- Fr餩ric_L._W._Meunier <1@pervalidus.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>What about asking them to not scan any Cygwin mounts
>>or ignore
>>the Cygwin DLLs ?
>>
>>The site is pretty clear:
>>
>>* WinCvs compiled for Windows 98, Windows NT/2000
>>(Optionally
>>you may want to install TCL8.1 or higher in order to
>>get the
>>macros working, see the TCL home page).
>>
>>The TCL link points to http://dev.scriptics.com/ ,
>>not Cygwin.
>>
>>-- 
>>http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html
>>    
>>
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