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  • From: Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: CygWin
  • Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:41:10 -0500

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:37:12AM -0400, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> I updated freetds from cvs today. It ./configure, make, and make install
> without any problems on Cygwin. Now the hard part, getting my apps to
> build and run with freetds... :-)

> I still prefer the FreeTDS DLLs to have names like the Linux counterparts:
> libtds.dll --> libtds.so, libct.dll --> libct.so, and libdb.dll -->
> libdb.so
> instead of having cyg in front of the name like cygtds.dll
> But, this is not important.

I think the convention of using "cyg" in the library name indicates that
the library *depends* on cygwin. There is some justification for
distinguishing between native Win32 dlls and dlls that depend on the
POSIX layer provided by cygwin.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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