cyg/lib DLL naming

[Pečiva Jan]

>> Hi,
>>
>> our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on
>> Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a
>> result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and
>> not cygfreetype.dll ?
>
> This is an old library from the XFree86-dll-compat package and the package
> is only required by program which have not been updated to the naming
> structure which is used for over year now.

Thanks for the response. I am glad that cyg prefix is planned to be used
everywhere. However, can you give me some hints when will be the package or the
DLL probably removed?

Thanks,
John