X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AEFF7EF.4040202@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:29:19 -0600 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Shall dlopen("foo") succeeed if only "foo.dll" exists? References: <20091102164807 DOT GA2897 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4AEF305E DOT 1010105 AT cygwin DOT com> <20091102203348 DOT GC6836 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4AEFE81D DOT 8010202 AT towo DOT net> In-Reply-To: <4AEFE81D.8010202@towo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 03/11/2009 02:21, Thomas Wolff wrote: > In terms of compatibility and least surprising behavior, what about > accepting dlopen ("bla.so") and looking for "bla.dll"? No, Ruby and Apache2 (among others) use .so on all platforms, including native Win32. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple