Alan, If this were an msys2 application, I imagine that would likely be true. What he's referring to is software built as a native Windows application using the msys2 platform and so are not linked to the msys dll (or the cygwin one in cygwin's case). If he was building against the msys2 runtime, that would be another matter.
Matt On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Alan W. Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-03-25 16:25-0400 Matt Breedlove wrote: > >> DLLs load from the system32/wow64 directory first *regardless* of any >> PATH variables. [...] > > >> Here's the URL that describes the behavior: >> >> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18.aspx >> >> [...] Windows will search >> the system directories first and then progress along the PATH >> directories. This is unless a specific call is made to change that >> behavior (which it is not). > > > I have just subscribed to this list so I am not sure whether the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable approach has been mentioned or > not to give MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform users absolute choice of dll's > similar to how the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is implemented > on Unix/Linux. I notice that according to > <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is > implemented for Cygwin so I assume it is also implemented for > MinGW-w64/MSYS2, but if that assumption is incorrect, that > implementation should be a fairly high priority in my opinion. > > N.B. To introduce myself I do have a strong predilection for > Unix-style solutions such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I don't have access to > the Microsoft version of Windows (by design), but I do think that the > Windows platform is a great ecological niche for free software to > fill, and I am very happy to see Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 carrying out > that task. :-) > > My first attempt to use MinGW-w64/MSYS2 from the Wine version of > Windows failed a while back because of a Wine bug (even though > MinGW/MSYS works well under Wine). Nevertheless, I am still > interested in gaining knowledge of the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform in > case I can ever get access to it via Wine and also so that I can give > good advice to PLplot users who are building and using PLplot > (normally with complete success) on MinGW-w64/MSYS2. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
