Hi everyone,

I am aware that this is not really a Unix question, since DLLs aren't
really a Unix file type I think you'd be best fit for answering it
anyways:

When I was last compiling a set of libraries under cygwin (xercesc), I
put the dlls in the /bin folder. For they are, technically, binaries, in
a way that they are OS-specific, contrary to the stuff I'd usually put
in the /lib folder. And the path to the bin folder is set, so for
programming on that machine, I do not need to set an extra path to the
/lib folder just to execute the compiled programs.

Setting a path to a library folder would seem strange to me anyways.

However, now I compiled wxWidgets under MinGW and make install put the
library files into $(PREFIX)/lib - including the dlls. So that made me
wonder. They are technically libraries, just OS-specific binary ones. So
where would you keep your DLL files (given that you use MinGW or
Cygwin)? And why?

/usr/local isn't available on MinGW btw, so I'd like to just just /bin,
/lib and /include

Any advice appreciated!

Lars