From: Carlo Bramini <carlo_bramini@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 14:29:26 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: gh-149831: Fix ctypes DLL library name on Cygwin (#149832)
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gh-149831: Fix ctypes DLL library name on Cygwin (#149832)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
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diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index 0b84a27f8c6d..890168cc9809 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -549,9 +549,11 @@ pydll = LibraryLoader(PyDLL)
 
 if _os.name == "nt":
     pythonapi = PyDLL("python dll", None, _sys.dllhandle)
-elif _sys.platform in ["android", "cygwin"]:
+elif _sys.platform == "android":
     # These are Unix-like platforms which use a dynamically-linked libpython.
     pythonapi = PyDLL(_sysconfig.get_config_var("LDLIBRARY"))
+elif _sys.platform == "cygwin":
+    pythonapi = PyDLL(_sysconfig.get_config_var("DLLLIBRARY"))
 else:
     pythonapi = PyDLL(None)