Can't load/execute soft-linked DLL???

["Mark Paulus" <commpg at yahoo dot com>]

Hi,

I'm working on converting a linux app to cygwin.  One of the 
things the build process does is create a .so that is named:
library.so.major.minor.point, and then it creates a soft
link of library.so.major.minor.point to library.so.

I have changed around the LD build options to create a cygwin
dll, and changed the makefile to build
library.dll.major.minor.point (I used the same trick as is used to
generate a $(EXE) in the makefile, except I call it $(SO).

Anyway, the library.dll.major.minor.point seems to build ok, and then
it creates a link to library.dll.  However, when I try to run my app,
it tells me that it can't find/load library.dll.  However, when I do a 
copy of library.dll.m.m.p to library.dll, then the app can startup
ok.

Is this a known deficiency within cygwin, or something that needs to 
be examined???



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