An alternative is to add a line to the build script that would copy libzmq.dll to zmq.dll. That way the both options would be available, till the whole thing is solved in a sane way.
Martin On 01/07/2011 06:29 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > How to proceed: break all language bindings on Windows, and do this for > ZeroMQ 3.0 or even 2.2. As long as there is a benefit overall... > > On 7 Jan 2011 18:05, "Martin Sustrik" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Alexey, > > > >> Is there any rationale for using libzmq.dll library name on Windows > >> (and not zmq.dll)? According to the list archives, Martin Sustrik > >> proposed renaming libzmq to zmq in February, but nothing came out of > >> it. > >> Some tools really do expect libraries to be named libfoo.so/foo.dll > <http://libfoo.so/foo.dll> — > >> for example, Java Web Start. Deploying a webstart application that > >> uses zeromq+jzmq right now is impossible without hacks (adding > >> loadLibrary calls for both "libzmq" and "zmq" and hoping that at least > >> one of them will work), so it'd be great if that rename did happen. > > > > It would be nice to rename the lib, but that would mean breaking all the > > language bindings on Windows :( > > > > Any idea how to proceed? > > > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > > zeromq-dev mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
