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Re: dll-problems
- To: GNUWin32 <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: dll-problems
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:45:19 -0500
- References: <38E3683B.B406811E@enea.se> <38E444E7.21103147@uniweb.se>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:25:43AM +0200, Jens Yllman wrote:
> I don't know exactly how cygwin is linked to the .exe. But it is
>probably as I call it staticly. Which means that the system loads it for
^^^^^^^^
>you on startup. And the system looks in the enviroment variable PATH. If
>it is not there then you can not start the program. I think WinNT also
>looks in the current directory and the /winnt/system32 even if not in
>the PATH.
This is a correct summation except that cygwin is loaded "dynamically" not
"staticly".
cgf
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