Re: Cygwin linking model (Was: Nightly zip: tests regression and library_order fail under Cygwin)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-25 05:16:43

Niklaus Giger wrote:

>> which is compiled into DLL. The 'b' function is defined in another DLL,
>> that
>> 'a' is not linked too (intentionally). Seems like this causes the error.
>> Now
>> the question -- anybody knows why. Does cygwin require that another DLL
>> be given during linking a.dll? Does it require __dllimport on b?
>> 
>> If that's the case, then the test just makes no sense for cygwin and I'll
>> remove it.

> Sorry. I do not know anything about generating program and DLL for cygwin.
> Maybe you should ask this on the cygwin user list.

I hope somebody else on this list knows the answer.

>> And BTW, I get a some other failures on cygwin -- for example, the
>> 'stage' test. I wonder why it works for you :-/
> I know it. From my PATH I get the following to environment variables
> TEMP=/cygdrive/c/TEM
> TMP=/cygdrive/c/TEMP
> I to to enter the following command
> $ unset TEMP; unset TMP
> before being able to run the "python stage.py".

Ah, I'll look into those failures then.

Thanks,
Volodya