From: Simon Harrison <simonharrison@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T05:36:10+09:00
Subject: Re: where to get required/recommended dll's on win32

thanks for reply Curt. I'm not wanting to compile ruby at the moment, 
just the external dependencies such as readline, ssh, pdcurses etc. Have 
you managed to compile any of these (latest versions)?

Also, would you be able to enlighten me as to how .so files work? in the 
lib/i386-mswin32 directory on windows there are a whole bunch of them:

curses.so, readline.so, socket.so  ...etc

Do these files link with dll's on windows or can they operate on their 
own? I asked this question a while back but never really got an 
authoritive answer. I was under the impression that .so on *nix was 
equivalent to .dll on windows. If this is the case then why would they 
be installed on windows?

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