Re: DLL names

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
> 
> 
> Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 May 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> >> Another question: The CVS version of XFree86 (plus the patched
> >> files from xwin-20030518-1426.tar.bz2) creates the DLLs with
> >> different names than the pre-installed package.
> 
> > [...] we changed the names of the produced dlls to avoid name
> > conflicts (eg libXaw-6 vs libXaw-7 or libXft-1 and libXft-2)
> 
> That's not the only thing.  I also see that e.g. libX11.dll is called
> cygX11-6.dll.  Is that how the DLLs are going to be called in the
> future?  Or is there some renaming going on that I am currently
> missing when compiling from CVS?

The cygwin folks have decided that the dlls for cygwin should be named 
cygXXX if the unix library was called libXXX.

or in complete:

a libXXX.so.Y.Z from unix is now called cygXXX-Y.dll, eg
libX11.so.6.2 is cygX11-6.dll

The change should not affect compiling since -lXXX will still search
for libXXX.a and libXXX.a.dll (or was it libXXX.dll.a *g*).

The XFree 4.3.0 release (if it will be ever exist) will follow this new 
naming scheme.

bye
	ago
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