On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Václav Šmilauer wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I would like to ask what the best/recommended practice for installing
> shared libraries under Windows/mingw is. Qt4 for instance installs DLLs
> to both $PREFIX/bin and $PREFIX/lib. I prefer to install to $PREFIX/lib
> and add it to $PATH (in addition to $PREFIX/bin), but I wonder if there
> is a good reason to put libs under bin.

Common practice is to put the DLL in the $PREFIX/bin directory and to
put the import libraries in $PREFIX/lib.  Since it is common practice
doing otherwise might upset your users.

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