On May 22 10:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:47:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On May 21 21:43, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: > >> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: > >> > >> > My question is whether there is a way to include the full path to the > >> > .dll > >> > while creating the .exe - much like how cmake "link_directories" or > >> > "target_link_libraries" allows you to - for e.g. on Linux (an ldd on the > >> > executable file shows the full path to the .so file and thus > >> > precludes the need to explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH). While this is not > >> > a > >> > cmake question (or a cmake mailing list) if you have experience solving > >> > this problem using cmake, would appreciate those insights as well. > >> > >> I found this while looking for cygwin RPATH: > >> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-October/017267.html. Perhaps > >> the lack of RPATH support on Windows/Cygwin is the reason? > > > >RPATH is an ELF feature. Full paths to DLLs are not supported by the > >PE/COFF executable format. Also, Cygwin DLLs are still loaded by the > >Windows loader, so POSIX paths won't work, and full Windows paths won't > >make much sense, given that Cygwin is not always installed into > >C:\cygwin. > > > >The solution for this would be an ELF loader in Cygwin and a Cygwin > >linker which produces ELF DLLs by default. But that's quite a big > >project on its own and nobody seemed to have fun, time, or money, to > >implement this. > > So, maybe *next* Thursday then?
Alas, I still have no cat... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
