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Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH


----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen"
Sent: 25 November 2008 10:43
Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$PATH is what you want and if you examine /bin resp. /usr/bin, you see that Cygwin puts all shared libs there for the above reason. /lib resp. /usr/lib only contain the static libs and the shared link stubs necessary for the linker at build time.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH only has a meaning in Cygwin's dlopen() implementation,
when loading shared libs at runtime.

Thanks Corinna.  AFAIK my development IDE won't allow me to direct the link
stubs to a different folder from the shared objects (unless I copy them, of
course).  So I've just added cygwin's /usr/lib to my path.  This makes it
work the same way as my 2 x Linux distros which will probably avoid
confusion in the long run.

John

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