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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:06:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
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On Aug 16 08:26, Earnie wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > The patch also changes the default search path. As before, it first
> > checks for LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, given the fact that all shared
> > libs which are usually in /usr/lib on other systems, are in /usr/bin
> > on Cygwin, it makes a lot of sense to add /usr/bin to the search
> > path.
> >
>
> Except that the location of the binary is always searched regardless.
No, it's not. LoadLibrary always gets a full path in dlopen.
> > Is that something we should do now?
>
> If you're going to do it anyway, yes, but I question the need to add
> /usr/bin.
See above.
Corinna
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