X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=SSKmfZ1EH7BM/YWhQci57bPvgLsZ+ipHoG6c142oCNBfvegqPRhNs NzcewV7oiyM58swBkt4RswtI8KsObKYbWQXLyHUIOGk0E70tAc8NrJgNhb2xXwR+ 3QKVgy7wtLecVpzkNYsBKGqW+Qx1K5mWkTQkG7MrUxTps7UrNhAK7E= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=bjx9AEFatw7H61txcjiihlwCUEY=; b=df76W5pSCV+KrzE6m+27pXjCuLzb 7pkHTqgC4AADqT/v0l1xeibGf1qVXTiJr/SJGMRC5u20VovSoqC7UF/RTNZxKWEq kup5HQNQ2nftiYIeyEpU/I82OrQd5ntmbvX2NS1IzNXyiGs2eBD4R8aDQUQ/uqCZ 4ZEkUFlip/9jL4M= 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 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:01:54 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Including full path to shared library in the executable file Message-ID: <20130523090154.GF22259@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20130522084711 DOT GU2406 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20130522145813 DOT GC8150 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20130522152450 DOT GA22259 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <519D8889 DOT 5070206 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <519D8889.5070206@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On May 22 23:10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 5/22/2013 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On May 22 10:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:47:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On May 21 21:43, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: > >>>>On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>My question is whether there is a way to include the full path to the .dll > >>>>>while creating the .exe - much like how cmake "link_directories" or > >>>>>"target_link_libraries" allows you to - for e.g. on Linux (an ldd on the > >>>>>executable file shows the full path to the .so file and thus > >>>>>precludes the need to explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH). While this is not a > >>>>>cmake question (or a cmake mailing list) if you have experience solving > >>>>>this problem using cmake, would appreciate those insights as well. > >>>> > >>>>I found this while looking for cygwin RPATH: > >>>>http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-October/017267.html. Perhaps > >>>>the lack of RPATH support on Windows/Cygwin is the reason? > >>> > >>>RPATH is an ELF feature. Full paths to DLLs are not supported by the > >>>PE/COFF executable format. Also, Cygwin DLLs are still loaded by the > >>>Windows loader, so POSIX paths won't work, and full Windows paths won't > >>>make much sense, given that Cygwin is not always installed into > >>>C:\cygwin. > >>> > >>>The solution for this would be an ELF loader in Cygwin and a Cygwin > >>>linker which produces ELF DLLs by default. But that's quite a big > >>>project on its own and nobody seemed to have fun, time, or money, to > >>>implement this. > >> > >>So, maybe *next* Thursday then? > > > >Alas, I still have no cat... > > Can someone *please* donate a cat for Corinna? Oh, please, no! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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