On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:00:37PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > vinschen> - Makefile.org contains some changes to allow creating DLLs > vinschen> under Cygwin. The main change is adding a new target > vinschen> `do_cygwin-shared' which creates the cygcrypto.dll and cygssl.dll > vinschen> files as well as the corresponding link libraries libcrypto.dll.a > vinschen> and libssl.dll.a. > > Why the "cyg" prefix?
All Cygwin shared libs have a `cyg' instead of a `lib' prefix. The reason is that in contrast to other operating systems you have multiple concurrent implementations of the same stuff, native, U/Win, Cygwin, Interix, etc. For that reason there was a community consensus to use another prefix to lower the chance to collide with one of the other implementations. > Also, since you're based in the US, you need to resend that patch with > a cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, I'm not based in the US. I'm in Germany and I'm not doing that as a Red Hat employee. The contribution of packages to the Cygwin net distribution is pure voluntary. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Red Hat, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
