DLL names

Benjamin Riefenstahl Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de
Mon May 26 11:50:00 GMT 2003


Hi Alexander,


Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:

> On Mon, 26 May 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
>> Another question: The CVS version of XFree86 (plus the patched
>> files from xwin-20030518-1426.tar.bz2) creates the DLLs with
>> different names than the pre-installed package.

> [...] we changed the names of the produced dlls to avoid name
> conflicts (eg libXaw-6 vs libXaw-7 or libXft-1 and libXft-2)

That's not the only thing.  I also see that e.g. libX11.dll is called
cygX11-6.dll.  Is that how the DLLs are going to be called in the
future?  Or is there some renaming going on that I am currently
missing when compiling from CVS?


so long, benny



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