Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:11:00 +0100 Message-ID: <3766-Wed17Apr2002101100+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Westley Weimer Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: True Static Linking In-Reply-To: References: On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Westley Weimer writes: > I am using gcc under cygwin and I would like to ship hello.exe to a friend > who does not have cygwin1.dll on his computer. > ... > (1) Is there a "-static" switch that statically links in cygwin1.dll? Read the FAQ entry "Can I build a Cygwin program that does not require cygwin1.dll at runtime?" > (2) If not, how else can I solve this problem? Have them install Cygwin. If they only want the "cygwin" package from the Base category, they can de-select all the other packages that would otherwise be installed by default. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/