LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[John Emmas]

----- 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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