From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: Why is cygwin.dll?
17 Jan 1997 11:27:53 -0800
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Hi, you wrote:

: Maybe if you could get it ported to Visual C++, however when talking about
: cygwin.dll, as mentioned in Jim Balter's reply to the same thread, if you
: compile this on Visual C++ it would be using DOS's file system and syscalls
: etc.. yet under cygwin.dll for file access it would need all the extra code
: which cygwin.dll adds to mimic the  Unix subsystems. This would no doubt be
: a rather large amount, and if just making something like grep by itself
: mostly be unnecessary, assuming you just want want grep on win32.

No wonder that msvcrt*.dll are only about 10% of cygwin.dll!

Who was it wanting a standalone executable for easier distribution?
I remember when building with msvc and copying the executable to another
system, it first failed because msvcrt*.dll is not by default on NT!
Dunno if you can produce a purely static thing... (except kernel32 etc 8-)


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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