installing libs on Windows

[Ralf Habacker]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> On 22.07.07 18:53:12, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 22 July 2007 11:23, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>     
>>> On 22.07.07 10:15:27, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Saturday 21 July 2007 09:37, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Simon Hausmann wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> As far as I can see this is the standard on Windows anyway, and I
>>>>>> don't see what _problem_ we would really solve by introducing a more
>>>>>> complex syntax.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> We just mustn't forget to set PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR and
>>>>> LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR correctly, so as to not create subdirs in bin/
>>>>>           
>>>> The .exe, .dll and .lib would go to bin/, the rest to lib/.
>>>> Sounds good IMO (ok, actually I don't have a problem with the current
>>>> installation).
>>>>
>>>> Windows developers ?
>>>>         
>>> As I already said: .lib needs to go to lib/ as well. Only the dll's need
>>> to go wit the .exe to bin/
>>>       
>> I mean, except that they *should* go to lib/, would there be a real problem if 
>> they are in bin/ ?
>>     
yes, this pollutes the bin dir with many files only needed for
development and reduce application startup time.

This is also a reason why dll's should be in bin. Having additional
directories in the PATH variable increases the search time for dll finding.

Ralf