R: cygxxx.dll or xxx.dll?
Marco Atzeri
marco_atzeri@yahoo.it
Wed Oct 13 10:35:00 GMT 2010
--- Mer 13/10/10, Al ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> I tried this tutorial: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html
>
> The DLL source is "mydll.c". The DLL is linked with "gcc -o
> myprog
> myprog.c -L./ -lmydll".
>
> For the DLL I tried different names:
>
> * mydll.dll
> * cygmydll.dll
> * xmydll.dll
>
> "mydll.dll" and "cygmydll.dll" are found by
> "-lmydll". "xmydll.dll"
> isn't found by "-lmydll" but by "-lxmydll".
>
> It seems the "cyg" prefix is build into the linker
> upstream.
>
> What is the official policy to name DLL? Cygports with
> "cyg" prefix,
> other ones without?
cyg prefix for cygwin, to avoid clash with lib prefix of minwg
>
> Al
Marco
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