On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:35:53PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> Are symlinks possible to do with Cygwin? If they are, I propose we do
> it the same way as under Unix (where '.so.0.9.7' ends the file name.
> In the Cygwin case, it would end with '.0.9.7.dll' instead...). That
> way, it won't be a special case for Cygwin, and the library version
> matching will hopefully work well enough. Also, then one can have
> symlinks called cygcrypto.dll pointing at the correct library du jour.
That's exactly how it can't work. The DLL search algorithm is inside
of Windows and it doesn't work using symlinks (resp. shortcuts under
Windows) unfortunately.
Corinna
P.S.: It's ok to send mail to the mailing list only since I'm subscribed.
Thanks.
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen@;redhat.com
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