Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 13:31:19 -0400 From: Chris Faylor To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: DLL naming conventions Message-ID: <20000903133119.A22506@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <200009011148.OAA23769@urkki.tellabs.fi> <39AFB333.69CE5F95@ece.gatech.edu> <20000902140958.F7695@demon.co.uk> <39B14893.A86AF3F9@ece.gatech.edu> <20000902231925.Q7695@demon.co.uk> <20000902221915.B13854@cygnus.com> <20000903132712.B7695@demon.co.uk> <20000903123018.A22158@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20000903123018.A22158@cygnus.com>; from cgf@cygnus.com on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:30:18PM -0400 On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:30:18PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote: >I think it may be possible to have a dll that is loaded before most >other dlls change the PATH so that something like /usr/lib is first in >the path, removing the /usr/lib prior to execution of 'main()'. We >could, in fact, even add a front end to kernel32.dll which did this. > >This could be a solution for cygwin but I don't know if it addresses the >problem of other packages or not. Nevermind. I've been doing more reading. Load order != order of execution: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period99/hood0999.htm cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com