[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] Remove cyg prefix from native DLLs on Windows

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Kornél Pál <kornelpal at hotmail.com> writes:

>>That's only for now.  Maybe in the future, we may want to distinguish
>>between the two.  For example, if we have separate MingW32 and Cygwin
>>builds, the MWF hackers can test all these on a single machine:
>>
>>  * SWF on .NET
>>  * MWF/Win32 on Mono/Mingw32
>>  * MWF/X11 on Mono/Cygwin
>>
>>It'll allow GTK# developers to test the following in parallel:
>>
>>  * GTK# + GTK+/Win32 on .NET
>>  * GTK# + GTK+/Win32 on Mono/Mingw32
>>  * GTK# + GTK+/X11 on Mono/Cygwin
>
> OK, now I understand your plans.

They aren't plans: just vague ideas brought up to answer your question ;-)

> By the way I think Cygwin allows X11 libraries to be used even when
> using mingw32 target.
>
> And do you plan to use cygwin-1.dll when targetting cygwin and use native
> Windows libraries when targetting mingw32?

I don't know.  I think that we probably will pull in cygwin-1.dll via
cygglib-2.0-0.dll if we build against it -- so I don't see why not.
However, it's not going to happen anytime soon (if at all), and I'll
probably have little to do with it :-)

- Hari