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On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 5:24 PM Johannes Thoma via Cygwin
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As I understood the reason for not being able to statically link
> the cygwin1.dll in to a binary and distribute that is because of
> licensing issues.

Do you have any references for that?

> Are there any technical issues that would make
> it impossible to link with cygwin statically?
>
> The reason I am asking is I am working on a GPL project
> (WinDRBD: https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd) and am currently
> delivering the cygwin1.dll along with the binary. It would be
> desireable to have the cygwin1.dll statically linked (for example
> to avoid version clashes) instead. Is that technically possible?
> If necessary I am ready to compile cygwin (at least the needed
> files) on my own.

Interesting.
But how (from a developers perspective) do you link cygwin1.dll
statically into a binary?

Thanks,
Martin

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