[Rubygems-developers] Binaries dependencies (shared_libraries) for Windows.

[Charlie Savage]

> I've explored the different alternatives under several environments
> and the following are my findings:
> 
> 1) Alteration of PATH to prepend the DLL location.
> 2) Usage of SetDllDirectory
> 3) LoadLibraryEx with LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH

Maybe we do something simple and say that all shared dependencies get 
put into ruby/lib on windows (or create a new directory, ruby/shared or 
something).  Or we could just do what happens now, put everything in 
bin.  But I think its probably be better to separate them out.

One potential drawback with this solution is if 2 gems use the same 
shared library, but install different versions (although maybe the files 
would have different names).

Charlie
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