[Mono-list] Simd...which dll?

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 14:49 -0700, LKeene wrote:
> Hello, which mono.simd.dll should I reference in my project? I have two
> choices it seems:
> 
> 1) C:\Program files (x86)\Mono-2.2\lib\mono\2.0\Mono.SIMD.dll
> 2) C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Mono-2.2\lib\mono\gac\Mono.Simd\2.0.0.0_0738eb9f132ed756/Mono.SIMD.dll

They should be identical.  On Linux (and any other platform that
supports symbolic links), $prefix/lib/mono/2.0/Mono.Simd.dll is a
symbolic link to
$prefix/lib/mono/gac/Mono.Simd/2.0.0.0_0738eb9f132ed756/Mono.Simd.dll.

Since Windows doesn't support symbolic links [0], they should just be
copies of each other.  Choose whichever one you prefer.

 - Jon

[0] OK, Vista added support for symbolic links, but at the time you
needed Administrator permissions to actually *create* one, and I never
had any actual luck creating symbolic links (ymmv).  I have no idea if
an installer will be able to use CreateSymbolicLink() to create them if
they're not enabled, nor do I know if Mono's installer would be creating
symbolic links in the first place.