Please keep mail on list. Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2002 04:39 pm, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> I guess I'm looking for conformation that cygwin binaries do not >>> honor the symlinks. >> >> Sure, cygwin binaries do. But *only* Cygwin binaries. And the >> Windows DLL loaded isn't a Cygwin binary. > > The application I'm running is uic.exe, a binary I compiled under > cygwin with gcc-3.2. The libqt-mt.dll, is a .dll I compiled under > cygwin with gcc-3.2, so that should make both the binaries cygwin > binaries, correct?
Yep. But the bit of code that links them together (i.e. an internal part of Windows) isn't. Therefore, symlinks to DLLs *do not work*. Unavoidably. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
