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sroberts82 wrote:

> Can someone help me understand this, its probably really straightforward but
> I can't find an answer for this.
> Why is it when I build the most basic helloworld.exe and try and run it I
> get told of a dependancy on cygwin1.dll? Why do I need this dll, and what

When you build that program that calls printf("hello world"), where do
you think that implementation of printf comes from?  On linux you have a
libc.so, on Cygwin you have a cygwin1.dll, they are analogous.

> how do I build to avoid needing this?

You don't.  Or you use something other than Cygwin.

Brian

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