Re: [Chicken-users] CMake: "make install" crashes on bad reference to chicken.html

[Brandon J. Van Every]

John Cowan wrote:
> In that way, libfoo.dll and cygfoo-0.dll can coexist in PATH without
> difficulty, and the GNU linker was extended to handle either naming
> convention depending on the --dll-search-prefix switch.  Furthermore,
> Cygwin programs can share DLLs easily without a DLL-hell problem, thanks
> to the explicit version number.
>   

Googling around, this information does appear to be semi-historical, or 
at least non-exhaustive.
From http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.16/ld/WIN32.html

"2. Create a symbolic link from the dll to a file in the lib directory 
according to the above mentioned search pattern. This should be used to 
avoid unwanted changes in the tools needed for making the app/dll."

Official best practices are proving elusive to Google.  I'll give it a 
few more minutes of poking.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every