On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote: > > On May 22 23:10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 5/22/2013 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On May 22 10:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:47:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >>>On May 21 21:43, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: > > >>>>On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>>My question is whether there is a way to include the full path to the > > >>>>>.dll > > >>>>>while creating the .exe - much like how cmake "link_directories" or > > >>>>>"target_link_libraries" allows you to - for e.g. on Linux (an ldd on > > >>>>>the > > >>>>>executable file shows the full path to the .so file and thus > > >>>>>precludes the need to explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH). While this is > > >>>>>not a > > >>>>>cmake question (or a cmake mailing list) if you have experience solving > > >>>>>this problem using cmake, would appreciate those insights as well. > > >>>> > > >>>>I found this while looking for cygwin RPATH: > > >>>>http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-October/017267.html. Perhaps > > >>>>the lack of RPATH support on Windows/Cygwin is the reason? > > >>> > > >>>RPATH is an ELF feature. Full paths to DLLs are not supported by the > > >>>PE/COFF executable format. Also, Cygwin DLLs are still loaded by the > > >>>Windows loader, so POSIX paths won't work, and full Windows paths won't > > >>>make much sense, given that Cygwin is not always installed into > > >>>C:\cygwin. > > >>> > > >>>The solution for this would be an ELF loader in Cygwin and a Cygwin > > >>>linker which produces ELF DLLs by default. But that's quite a big > > >>>project on its own and nobody seemed to have fun, time, or money, to > > >>>implement this. > > >> > > >>So, maybe *next* Thursday then? > > > > > >Alas, I still have no cat... > > > > Can someone *please* donate a cat for Corinna? > > Oh, please, no! > > > Corinna
*Mails a litter of kittens to Corinna* Robert Pendell A perfect world is one of chaos. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
