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Date:	Fri, 3 Sep 2004 23:24:46 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: how to link without libutil.so? [repost]
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On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:18:06PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>>>cannot find -lutil
>> 
>>As you noted, the file doesn't exist in the cygwin distribution.  It's
>>possible that you could just get by with removing it from the link line
>>entirely since it looks like most of the functions in this library are
>>in cygwin1.dll.
>
>No, I tried that already.

You said that you tried linking libcygwin.a to libutil.a but that is
not necessarily going to work.

>The link still fails.

"the link still fails" provides almost zero useful information.

You certainly didn't get the same "cannot find -lutil" error message
when you tried this.

Since Corinna went to some effort to add libutil functionality to the
cygwin DLL a while ago and since I can't see any functions in libutil.so
which are missing from cygwin1.dll, I don't see why this didn't work.

cgf

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