From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T05:50:25+09:00
Subject: Re: where to get required/recommended dll's on win32

I would tell that these .so files on windows are just renamed ordinary
.dlls. I don't have windows right now here, so see for yourself  (the
file should start with MZ and there should be some [almost
human-readable] info at the end)

On 7/21/06, Simon Harrison <simonharrison@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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