David A. Case wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003, David Rothenberger wrote: >> >> You can find out what DLLs an executable needs by running cygcheck on it. > > Note that this may not give a complete list. Consider rxvt.exe: > > quine% cygcheck rxvt.exe > Found: .\rxvt.exe > Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe > rxvt.exe > .\cygwin1.dll > C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.dll > C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll > C:\WINDOWS\System32\USER32.dll > C:\WINDOWS\System32\GDI32.dll > C:\WINDOWS\System32\ADVAPI32.dll > C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll > > > This might suggest that only cygwin1.dll is needed (besides the windows > stuff). However, continuing (in X, with DISPLAY set): > > quine% cd /usr/X11R6/bin > quine% mv libX11.dll libX11.dll~ > quine% back > /bin > quine% ./rxvt.exe > failed to load libX11.dll > > Putting libX11.dll~ back to its original name again allows rxvt.exe to run > correctly. Thus in this case (at least) cygcheck is not finding _all_ of > the dll's that are needed.
True, but the use of LoadLibrary/dlopen is rare (and that is why cygcheck is unable to detect the dependency in this case). Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
