Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:29:44PM -0700, David A. Case wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 06, 2003, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> 
>> You can find out what DLLs an executable needs by running cygcheck on it.
>
>Note that this may not give a complete list.  Consider rxvt.exe:
>
>quine% cygcheck rxvt.exe
>Found: .\rxvt.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe
>rxvt.exe
>  .\cygwin1.dll
>    C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.dll
>      C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll
>  C:\WINDOWS\System32\USER32.dll
>    C:\WINDOWS\System32\GDI32.dll
>      C:\WINDOWS\System32\ADVAPI32.dll
>        C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
>
>
>This might suggest that only cygwin1.dll is needed (besides the windows
>stuff).  However, continuing (in X, with DISPLAY set):
>
>quine% cd /usr/X11R6/bin
>quine% mv libX11.dll libX11.dll~
>quine% back
>/bin
>quine% ./rxvt.exe
>failed to load libX11.dll
>
>Putting libX11.dll~ back to its original name again allows rxvt.exe to run
>correctly.  Thus in this case (at least) cygcheck is not finding _all_ of the
>dll's that are needed.

Think "dlopen()".

cgf

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