Problems w/cygsym links vs. winsymlnks: (was Re: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin)

2015-10-11 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! I think symlink is a cygwin thing. Windows won't find that DLL (just like you won't find it using windows explorer.) Unless he have created a Windows symlink, that is correct. Explorer, however, may find it, as Cygwin symlinks are Windows LNK files.

Re: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin

2015-10-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Linda Walsh! >>> I think symlink is a cygwin thing. Windows won't find that DLL (just >>> like you won't find it using windows explorer.) >> >> Unless he have created a Windows symlink, that is correct. >> Explorer, however, may find it, as Cygwin symlinks are Windows LNK files. > ---

Re: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin

2015-10-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Yucong Sun! https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU pretty please... I think symlink is a cygwin thing. Windows won't find that DLL (just like you won't find it using windows explorer.) Unless he have created a Windows symlink, that is correct. Explorer, however, ma

Re: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin

2015-10-08 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Yucong Sun! https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU pretty please... > I think symlink is a cygwin thing. Windows won't find that DLL (just > like you won't find it using windows explorer.) Unless he have created a Windows symlink, that is correct. Explorer, however, may find it, as Cygwin

Re: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin

2015-10-08 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi, On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Yucong Sun wrote: Please don't top-post (https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU) > I think symlink is a cygwin thing. Windows won't find that DLL (just > like you won't find it using windows explorer.) > > Windows only support loading DLL from project directory,

Re: Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin

2015-10-08 Thread Yucong Sun
I think symlink is a cygwin thing. Windows won't find that DLL (just like you won't find it using windows explorer.) Windows only support loading DLL from project directory, or system32 as far as I know. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm running a pr

Running a program using a DLL under Cygwin

2015-10-08 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, I'm running a program which requires a DLL sitting in my "~/bin/" dir- ectory. Since "~/bin/" is contained in my "PATH" environment variable, everything works as desired. Recently I moved the DLL elsewhere, re- placing it with a symbolic link in "~/bin/". This caused the progra