Prefix like cyg and lib of DLLs ?

Sun Aug 2 08:11:00 GMT 2009

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Torsten Giebl wrote, On 1.8.2009 23:09:
> Hello !
>>> Where does the prefix of DLLs for example
> cyg* and lib* come from ? Is it something that
> is internal fixed or can i change that ?
>> That a library has the cyg prefix for example
> cygpng is okay to me, as it shows it was compiled for
> the special usage with CYGWIN, but i would like to get
> rid of the lib prefix when compiling with -mno-cygwin.
Learn not to use this switch. Use Mingw instead. It is going away with 1.7.
>> When creating DLLs by hand with gcc -shared -o .... i can name the
> DLL as i want, but what is for example with libpng, where is defined
> that the DLL it creates, is called libpng... ?
See <http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html>.
>> DLLs created with Visual C++, usually don't come with the lib prefix
> and i am trying to go with the same name.

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