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Link the bundled libsemigroups statically on MinGW - #1233
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Windows looks for the DLLs a kernel extension needs next to gap.exe, not next to the extension, so GAP could not load semigroups.so against libsemigroups-3.dll in bin/bin. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Opus 5)
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Windows looks for the DLLs a kernel extension needs next to gap.exe, not next to the extension, so GAP could not load semigroups.so against libsemigroups-3.dll in bin/bin.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (Opus 5)
This is for the putative "native" Windows port of GAP. It makes semigroups work there, for now. Long term we may wish to restore the dynamic linking, but: baby steps, baby steps...