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Re: DLL naming conventions


On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:30:18PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>I think it may be possible to have a dll that is loaded before most
>other dlls change the PATH so that something like /usr/lib is first in
>the path, removing the /usr/lib prior to execution of 'main()'.  We
>could, in fact, even add a front end to kernel32.dll which did this.
>
>This could be a solution for cygwin but I don't know if it addresses the
>problem of other packages or not.

Nevermind.  I've been doing more reading.  Load order != order of execution:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period99/hood0999.htm

cgf

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