On May 22 23:10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 5/22/2013 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >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... > > Can someone *please* donate a cat for Corinna?
Oh, please, no! 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
