"Hoyt, David" hoyt6@llnl.gov writes:
It might make some sense to install it in the same directory as the few nettle executables, but that won't solve everything. E.g., with regards to gnutls, you'd need the nettle dll located in the same directory as the gnutls executable, which nettle doesn't know about; it may or may not be the same directory as nettle's $bindir. So you'd probably need to copy it around anyway.
Perhaps it'd be useful to ping other projects and get their take?
I've asked on an internal gnu developers' list. I still don't know what the right thing is. Appearantly, the libtool default is to install dlls in $libdir/../bin, which seems a bit kludgy to me.
On Windows, you can either copy the dlls into the exe's directory or put the dll's directory in the front of the "PATH" env var.
So for make check, it should be sufficient to add the .lib subdirectory (in the build tree) to PATH? Like on ELF, that directory is added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Regards, /Niels