On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 01:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> Chaos. >>> >>> Windows does not support loading of DLLs through links. >> >>Thanks Larry, another validation of my distrust of windoze :-) > > >OK, well then I guess I should do a little work to dispel some of your >distrust. :-) > >After rereading this thread, I realize I'm wrong about this. :-( When I >originally read the comment about linking, I thought "symbolic link", which >is done so often with .so's on Linux/Unix. That won't work because the >Windows loader will not load DLLs through Cygwin's symbolic links. However, >the original response did not include the '-s' flag for 'ln'. Without it, >you get a "hard link" on NTFS formatted partitions and a copy everywhere >else. Windows will load either of these as a DLL (no surprise in the second >case at least ;-) ). > >Sorry for the confusion (mine and that which I caused).
Even if it was "ln -s", it's hardly fair to blame windows for not honoring a cygwin invention -- symbolic links. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
