> As AGO pointed out, searching for libfreetype.dll is non-portable, > dangerous, and silly.
Not me, who is doing that, but one large SW open-source library. Therefore it is clear, that it have to link with other libraries in the system that it is using. Things turned in to the OS ideas. And I am not interrested in them, I want to simply fix the incompatibility between Coin library and Cygwin. Coin library is important for us, because we are using it for visualization on our university (we are not the authors of the library). >> I think, you are missing the point. This compatibility library breaks the >> compatibility with non-cygwin world (see the previous discussion). > > No, I believe *you* are missing the point. [...] :-) If I skip all offensive words, I have to thank you for the discussion. Let me give you the last question: If I understand it correctly, I can not link with cygwin based DLLs without a special handling code. Am I true? John