On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:46:40 >+0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > vinschen> That's exactly how it can't work. The DLL search algorithm is inside > vinschen> of Windows and it doesn't work using symlinks (resp. shortcuts under > vinschen> Windows) unfortunately. > > OK, another question: does Windows DLLs have any version information > inside that's used for comparison, or is it just informative?
AFAIK DLLs are only picked up by name when searching for resolving symbols. Actually, we tried to find a workaround in Cygwin already long ago but Windows is not that cooperative here. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen@;redhat.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
