some general questions about (building) kde on windows

[William A. Hoffman]

At 05:20 PM 2/3/2006, Alexander Neundorf wrote:


>Are there issues like the RPATH problem on unix under windows too ? IOW, how 
>do the just-compiled executables find their libraries ? Do they have to be 
>located in some special location or is the location of the libraries somehow 
>compiled into the executables ? 

Windows only really allows for PATH and the same path as the executable.
For most projects it is easier to make the library and executable paths
the same.  So, EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH and LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH are set to
the same bin directory in VTK, ParaView, VXL, etc.   That way users are
not required to change the PATH to run a program, and also it reduces the
possibility of getting the wrong DLL, because it was in your PATH, this can
be problematic if you have multiple builds on the same machine, like Debug
and Release, or even different versions of the software.

-Bill