[TRE-general] cygwin problem

[skaller]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 21:42 +0300, Ville Laurikari wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:36:00AM +1000, skaller wrote:

> > Under current Cygwin, shared libraries work the same as on Linux
> > EXCEPT that they are named cygxxxx.dll. By convention,
> > 
> > 	cygtre.dll
> > 
> > would be the name (cyg instead of lib, denoting dependence on 
> > cygwin1.dll). 
> 
> This is not entirely correct.  

yes it is :) You haven't tried it. 

Cygwin can link directly against a dll, no export
library is required. The whole of Felix is built
like this on Cygwin.

They are required for MSVC++ VS2003 however, and therefore
also need to be used with mingw.

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net