From: bje@cygnus.com (Ben Elliston) Subject: Re: Question... 12 Jul 1998 14:18:52 -0700 Message-ID: References: <35a6ec92.1498044@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Weiser Cc: "Marcel R." , gnu-win32@cygnus.com > >I send a program that i compiled here for a friend... He said that this is > >asking for the file cygwin.dll ... To run my program the other person has > >to have this dll??? > Yep, he has to have this DLL in the same directory the executable is > in. It contains the UNIX/POSIX-Emulation-Layer that's been developed > to make porting of UNIX Applications to NT as easy as possible. What's wrong with having the DLL in a directory that is listed in the PATH environment variable? Ben - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".