Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Paul Garceau" Organization: New Dawn Productions To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:43:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Static version of Cygwin DLL? Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3A4B6DB3.10560.551D56@localhost> In-reply-to: <200012272359.SAA06445@envy.delorie.com> References: <3A4A0F6B DOT 13682 DOT 39B062 AT localhost> (pgarceau AT teleport DOT com) X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) I stand corrected. On 27 Dec 2000, at 18:59, the Illustrious DJ Delorie wrote: > > > By forcing the elimination of cygwin1.dll using -mno-cygwin, > > you can then do this: > > > > gcc -ofoo.exe foo.c -mno-cygwin -lcygwin > > > > The default paths already scan the usr/lib directory. It is > > the usr/lib directory that has the static version of cygwin > > (libcygwin.a). > > I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong. There is no static > version of the cygwin runtime, period. The -mno-cygwin option > tells gcc to cross-compile to the MSVC runtime (i.e. the result > is *not* a cygwin application). What you *think* is the "static > cygwin" is really just the import library for the DLL > Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple