Some things you don't bring from Windows. Then you bring Unix to Windows 
instead.
There is a market for it, or Cygwin nor Services For Unix would not exist.
("Services For Unix" being Microsofts strange name for their Cygwin-like 
offering.)


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 04:32:07PM +0200, Henrik Sarvell wrote:
> Please explain to me, why are you guys spending time trying to fix Cygwin? I
> really want to know, am I missing something fundamental here?
> 
> Cygwin is the reason I went all out Linux some 5 years ago when I tried to
> develop an SMS gateway with Linux as the target, on Win in Cygwin, too many
> problems, Cygwin != Linux and it seems it will never be.
> 
> If I really need some of the Adobe or MS office stuff these days I just launch
> a VirtualBox and work away, nothing to it. That or just buy a Mac.
> 
> /Henrik
> 
> 
> 2010/4/29 Mansur Mamkin <mmam...@mail.ru>
> 
> 
>     Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:04:47 +0200 Corinna Vinschen 
> <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com
>     >:
> 
>     > On Apr 29 12:39, Mansur Mamkin wrote:
>     > > Hello,
>     > >
>     > > As I see in source of dlfcn.cc, dlopen() should override LoadLibrary's
>     automatic adding of a ".dll" suffix,
>     > > but it's behaving strangely
>     > >
>     > > I have such files:
>     > > /home/me/project/myexe.exe
>     > > /home/me/project/lib1.dll
>     > > /home/me/project/subdir/lib2.dll
>     > > /home/me/project/subdir/lib3 (without .dll)
>     > >
>     > > My current directory is /home/me/project/
>     > >
>     > > I try to use dlopen() in myexe.exe with relative path:
>     > >
>     > > 1) dlopen("subdir/lib2") - NOT FOUND (If this OK, then why failed
>     dlopen("subdir/lib3")?)
>     >
>     > This one is correct.
>     >
>     > > 2) dlopen("subdir/lib3") - NOT FOUND (why?)
>     >
>     > I couldn't reproduce this one, but...
>     >
>     > > 3) dlopen("subdir/lib2.dll") - SUCCESS (works fine)
>     > > 4) dlopen("lib1") - SUCCESS (why it didn't override LoadLibrary's
>     adding ".dll" ?)
>     >
>     > ...this one is a bug.  I fixed that in CVS.
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Corinna
>     >
>     > --
>     > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
>     > Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>     > Red Hat
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