From: Jimmy Thrasher <jjthrash@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T20:01:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22074] Re: Flogging a live Window

I haven't read the details of all the messages, but it seems to me that
people think one must use the cygwin dll, and therefore be tied to cygwin,
if one uses cygwin at all.  Isn't there a linker mode that will link to the
Windows dlls?  -mnocygwin or something like that?

I personally like the idea of not having to be tied to extra products, and I
also like the idea of not having to have VC++.  Wouldn't this do nicely?

Jimmy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benoit Cerrina" <benoit.cerrina@writeme.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:22038] Re: Flogging a live Window


>
> > As I said earlier in the thread, what we really need to do right now is
to
> > identify problems which we believe are being caused by cygwin and file
> > some bugs with the cygwin folks - that, it seems to me, is our best
> > short-term solution.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> Well one problem is the different versions of the cygwin dll, as you may
> know,
> although windows has a prefered search strategy for dll (first the dir
where
> the
> exe is then the PATH env var) once a dll with a given name is loaded it
> doesn't
> attempt to reload it, this means that two apps wich only work with two
> different
> versions of a dll (with the same name) cannot cohabit in the same machine
if
> they
> were correctly installed (did not copy their dll all other the system) the
> first one
> which is launched will get to pick the dll in its dir and the next one
will
> be out of
> luck...
> I've had this exact problem with the cygwin dll coming with the ruby
install
> a while
> back, if I had launched a ruby script, programs coming with the cygwin
> distribution
> would suddenly repport dynamic linking errors.
> Also I don't know if any of you has managed to run a gtk sample from the
> cygwin
> distribution, well I haven't and it work like a charm with the mingw32
> distribution.
> Benoit
>
>