From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-05-14T10:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: popen3 on windows

Hi,

At Fri, 14 May 2004 05:51:45 +0900,
Joel VanderWerf wrote in [ruby-talk:100179]:
> I'm puzzlied, why does VC generate a .so instead of a .dll? Oh well, 
> ruby seems to load it with no problem.

Because nothing is prefixed to library files on Windows
traditionally, whereas "lib" for Unixes.  For instance, iconv
extension library requires external DLL named iconv.dll in
common, it would introduce confusion if the ruby extension also
were have .dll suffix.

-- 
Nobu Nakada