Re: [Mingw-w64-public] dll files in mingw/lib andx86_64-w64-mingw32\lib

[Sisyphus <sis...@op...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kai Tietz" <kti...@go...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] dll files in mingw/lib 
andx86_64-w64-mingw32\lib


> Hello Rob,
>
> 2012/6/26 Sisyphus <sis...@op...>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When we unzip the mingw-w64-bin_i686-mingw_YYYYMMDD.zip cross-compilers 
>> we
>> find a number of dll files (including libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll and
>> libstdc++-6.dll) in mingw/lib and x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib, but not in the
>> 'bin' folder.
>>
>> Are we supposed to :
>> a) copy those dll's to the 'bin' folder ?
>> or
>> b) add one/both of those lib folders to the path ?
>
> For cross-compiler they are placed in target's bin folder (mingw
> folder is normally just a symbolic link to the target-triplet-folder).
> For native toolchains the .dll files are copied into bin folder,
> which is for none-multilib setup ok.
> To copy for cross-compiler into corresponding lib-folder instead of
> bin-folder is caused by multilib-setup.  As here .dll files need
> different location for not overwriting each other.
>
> Variant b) is the proper one.
>
>> Why are they not already in the 'bin' folder ?
>
> See description about multilib-scenario and dll-file-name collision.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Thanks for explaining, Kai.

Cheers,
Rob