cyg*.dll, linking

[Ryan Johnson]

On 13/12/2011 1:16 PM, Brian Craft wrote:
> I'm building a few libraries which are dependencies of a program I'm
> building. Most of them build via autotools. Doing "make install"
> installs files *.a, *.la, *.dll.a. Linking the executable succeeds
> without error, however when running it, the loader complains that it
> can't find cyg*.dll files. E.g. if it was libfoo.a that was installed,
> the executable wants cygfoo-6.dll to run.
>
> These cyg-*.dll files exist in the build directories, generally in
> src/.libs . The program will run if I add all of these to the PATH.
>
> Seems like either the link or the install isn't working as it should.
> Are there docs anywhere that explain how this is supposed to work?
The lib*.a file is a stub which allows proper linking of the actual dll 
(exporting symbols, etc.). Linking against it doesn't remove the need to 
have the cyg*.dll available at runtime.

Ryan


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