Make program find its dll:s

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 18 17:29:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:11:55PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Quoting Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>:
>
>> does work. I guess LD_LIBRARY_PATH cannot be used for what I was trying
>> to do.
>
> Now, this indeed *is* Cygwin-specific :-)

No, it's actually Windows specific.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH only works for
dynamically loaded dlls using "dlopen()".  Cygwin doesn't affect the way
Windows finds DLLs that are linked into the program.

cgf

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