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From: | "Charles D. Russell" <worwor AT bellsouth DOT net> |
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Date: | Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:55:20 -0600 |
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Brian Dessent wrote: > 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. > Not as drastic as it sounds. Look at the compiler flag -mno-cygwin. Very handy if you occasionally want to distribute executables without cygwin1.dll. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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