-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Fergus on 4/15/2009 7:15 AM: > Q1. Can anybody tell me why cygcheck /bin/rxvt.exe does not show > libW11.dll as a dependency?
Because dlsym() allows one to have true dynamic dependencies, rather than static dependencies on .dlls as recorded in the .exe. The difference is that a static .dll dependency makes the entire app to fail to load (if you start the app from a cmd window, you'll get a popup box from the OS about a missing dependency), whereas dlsym() allows the application to choose how to gracefully handle load failures (rxvt chooses to tell you about the missing dependency and exit, but at least rxvt was run by the OS). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknl4Y8ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAkiQCghIhOeprl5cYQp6wzKdCZtpPD DFkAn1Amb5WTWF2sY4LzM76Jca9D2lBy =nepq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/