dlopen doesn't use LD_LIBRARY_PATH ( was dlopen and cygcheck inconsistency)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 07:09:50PM -0700, Sunil wrote:
>So, this issue is still un-resolved. Contrary to what
>cgf say, dlopen doesn't care about LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>while opening dependent DLLs of its argument. It opens
>the DLL if the depedent DLLs are found in the $PATH.

dlopen is a cygwin invention.  It honors LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Windows does
not know about LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  If you have a DLL which is statically
linked to other DLLs, the other DLLs will not be found on
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Standard Windows search rules for finding DLLs will be
used instead.

*Only* the dlopen call honors LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

cgf

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