Re: dll installation logic

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Since we are trying to make things work like UNIX here, I think that the dlls 
should probably be installed to $libdir.  The problem that needs solving is 
how to teach the executable to find its dlls.

Unfortunately this probably comes dow to wrapper scripts, which is ugly too 
=(O|

Bah!

        Gary.


On Wednesday 06 June 2001  8:14 am, Robert Collins wrote:
> The current cygwin shared library installation logic seems to be
>
> "install path"../bin
>
> This fails for things like l3 in depdemo where the install dir is
>
> extradir = $(libdir)/extra
> extra_LTLIBRARIES = libl3.la
>
> I'm not sure what we should use as install logic... maybe walk up the
> install path until we reach a 'lib' dir and then apply the ../bin rule.
> The problem being that libtool linked .exe's won't find the needed .dll
> unless the directory is in the dll search path. Add to this that the
> first found .dll is always used.. and installing every dll into either
> /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin almost makes sense.
>
> Thoughts?
> (This is the failure reason for depdemo-exec when depdemo has been built
> with shared librarys).
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