Why 2 DLL names?

2003-12-22 Thread Roy Clemmons
Greetings, Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows. After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were created: libxx.dll.a cygxx-1.dll I guess I was only expecting: libxx.dll. Why were the 2 names generated and why the cyg prefix on one of

RE: Why 2 DLL names?

2003-12-22 Thread Gareth Pearce
Greetings, Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows. After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were created: libxx.dll.a cygxx-1.dll I guess I was only expecting: libxx.dll. Why were the 2 names generated and why the cyg

Re: Why 2 DLL names?

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Blackburn
Roy Clemmons wrote: Greetings, Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows. After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were created: libxx.dll.a cygxx-1.dll libxx.dll.a is the import library cygxx-1.dll is the dll Read

Re: Why 2 DLL names?

2003-12-22 Thread Roy Clemmons
libxx.dll.a is the import library cygxx-1.dll is the dll Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html for a more complete explanation.Thanks for the reply. Unless I missed it, I still don't understand why the shared lib was created a cyg prefix and a -1 suffix. But, be that as it may,

Re: Why 2 DLL names?

2003-12-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Roy Clemmons wrote: libxx.dll.a is the import library cygxx-1.dll is the dll Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html for a more complete explanation.Thanks for the reply. Unless I missed it, I still don't understand why the shared lib was created a cyg prefix and a -1 suffix.