On 2016-03-25 18:12-0400 Matt Breedlove wrote: > 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.
Hi Matt: Thanks for your initial reply to my query concerning LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Could you expand further for the benefit of this MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform newbie? I do understand from those actually using the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform and the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 wiki there are three kinds of packages available in the package list of the pacman installer with prefixes mingw32/mingw-w64-i686, mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64, and msys. I assume the first two are 32-bit and 64-bit versions of what you refer to as "native" software (i.e., not linked to the msys2 dll but built on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform with appropriate 32-bit or 64-bit native runtime) while the third kind is also built on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform but with the msys2 runtime and therefore linked against the msys2 dll. So let's assume a native version of PLplot is built on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform against the mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64 packages using the correct 64-bit native runtime. However, suppose the user is using the "Unixy" aspects of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 such as bash.exe (installed using the msys/bash package). For this case would LD_LIBRARY_PATH be available so that bash.exe user could ensure the use of the mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64 dll's (when both the Windows system and mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64 provide a dll with the same name)? 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
