[zeromq-dev] Renaming libzmq.dll to zmq.dll

[Alexey Ermakov]

The main problem is that jzmq (and other language bindings, but I
don't know if there are any problems with them) links with libzmq.dll,
not zmq.dll, so build scripts for it will need to be changed too.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:
> An alternative is to add a line to the build script that would copy
> libzmq.dll to zmq.dll. That way the both options would be available,
> till the whole thing is solved in a sane way.
>
> Martin
>
> On 01/07/2011 06:29 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
>> How to proceed: break all language bindings on Windows, and do this for
>> ZeroMQ 3.0 or even 2.2. As long as there is a benefit overall...
>>
>> On 7 Jan 2011 18:05, "Martin Sustrik" <sustrik at 250bpm.com
>> <mailto:sustrik at 250bpm.com>> wrote:
>>  > Hi Alexey,
>>  >
>>  >> Is there any rationale for using libzmq.dll library name on Windows
>>  >> (and not zmq.dll)? According to the list archives, Martin Sustrik
>>  >> proposed renaming libzmq to zmq in February, but nothing came out of
>>  >> it.
>>  >> Some tools really do expect libraries to be named libfoo.so/foo.dll
>> <http://libfoo.so/foo.dll> —
>>  >> for example, Java Web Start. Deploying a webstart application that
>>  >> uses zeromq+jzmq right now is impossible without hacks (adding
>>  >> loadLibrary calls for both "libzmq" and "zmq" and hoping that at least
>>  >> one of them will work), so it'd be great if that rename did happen.
>>  >
>>  > It would be nice to rename the lib, but that would mean breaking all the
>>  > language bindings on Windows :(
>>  >
>>  > Any idea how to proceed?
>>  >
>>  > Martin
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