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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
On Jul 8 20:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Something else I'm wondering about is this.
>
> Right now the executable contains just the name of a DLL it is linked
> against. Does the PE/COFF format allow to store a relative path in the
> executable? Something like, say, "..\\lib64\\libfoo.dll"? If that is
> possible (I have really no idea) wouldn't that allow to have the DLLs
> in /usr/lib64, given that /usr/bin is in $PATH anyway?
Just as an additonal data point, if you give a relative path to
LoadLibrary, it appends the relative path to "every token in the DLL
search list". See the 7th paragraph in the "Remarks" section of
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684175%28VS.85%29.aspx
If that would also work for DLLs an executable is linked against...
Corinna
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