Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/03/19/05:28:09
On Mar 19 04:31, Yaakov S wrote:
> With 1.7, dlopen() no longer automatically searches /usr/bin by default.
> This was definitely not the case with 1.5, but I don't see any mention
> of this in the release notes or ChangeLog. Am I missing something here?
The default path if LD_LIBRARY_PATH isn't available is not /usr/bin, but
/usr/lib, and that has not changed since 1.5.25. However, what happens
is this:
If a DLL can't be found in a given PATH, Cygwin 1.5.25's function
searching for the DLL (get_full_path_of_dll) just left the filename
alone. The following LoadLibrary call then used the default DLL search
order, which includes the $PATH variable, thus a DLL in /usr/bin is
found.
Since July last year, Cygwin 1.7's get_full_path_of_dll function always
converts a filename to a full pathname, even if the file isn't found.
The resulting full pathname is $cwd/filename. This effectlvely
suppresses the Win32 default DLL search path in LoadLibrary, thus using
either LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or /usr/lib. From a POSIX perspective it's
wrong to rely on the default Win32 DLL load order in dlopen() and the
behaviour of dlopen() in 1.5.25 was a bug rather than a feature.
Bottom line is, I'm sure the new behaviour is more correct, but if
you have a convincing argument to revert to the old behaviour, I'm
certainly open for discussion.
Corinna
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