Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-17 Thread Pečiva Jan
>> > 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. > > Right, but that doesn'

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: > > 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

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-16 Thread Pečiva Jan
> 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

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: > [snip] > (*) I am expecting that I have understood it well, that I can not link MSVC > compiled applications and cygwin-gcc compiled DLLs. And this is not completely true anymore either. There were some fixes in the recent snapshots of Cygwin that allow c

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: > >> >> our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but > >> >> not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down > >> >> and as a result: What is the reason for naming > >> >> /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygf

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-2] Pe?iva Jan wrote: > I think, you are missing the point. This compatibility library breaks the > compatibility with non-cygwin world (see the previous discussion). Therefore, > I was asking, WHY is it prefixed lib* and not cyg* and WHEN will it be > removed to get

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-2] Pe?iva Jan wrote: > Thanks for the response. I am glad that cyg prefix is planned to be used > everywhere. However, can you give me some hints when will be the package or > the > DLL probably removed? When no other package has a dependency on XFree86-lib-compat.

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-15 Thread Pečiva Jan
>> >> our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but >> >> not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down >> >> and as a result: What is the reason for naming >> >> /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygfreetype.dll ? >> > >> > This is an old library f

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: > >> our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but > >> not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down > >> and as a result: What is the reason for naming > >> /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygfreetype.dll

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-14 Thread Pečiva Jan
>> Hi, >> >> our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on >> Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a >> result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and >> not cygfreetype.dll ? > > This is an old library from the

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-2] Pe?iva Jan wrote: > Hi, > > our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on > Cygwin > when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a result: > What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not > cyg

cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-13 Thread Pečiva Jan
Hi, our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygfreetype.dll ? We are using Coin for 3D rendering and it automatica