On 3/6/2017 9:03 PM, Daniel Santos wrote: > On 03/05/2017 05:08 AM, David Billinghurst wrote: >> No. >> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used by dlopen (). >> >> PATH is one of the locations searched by Windows when starting >> applications, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18.aspx > > Thank you for this clarification. So load-time dlls are resolved (in > ntdll.exe or some such) using PATH and run-time dlls loaded with > dlopen() are resolved with LD_LIBRARY_PATH? I'm obviously not intimate > with Cygwin's architecture, but I'm guessing that explicitly using > LoadLibrary is still going to use PATH.
You're obviously not intimate with Windows either. The search algorithm in Windows is more involved than PATH. You need to study more. -- cyg Simple -- 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
