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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:53:27 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu>
To: "Haack, Bradley R" <bradley.r.haack@lmco.com>
cc: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: stand alone console app
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Haack, Bradley R wrote:

> I would like to build a simple stand alone console program which will run
> with out the cygnus dll.  How do I do it?  If I compile and link with "gcc
> -g -o prog.exe prog.c" and try to run on a different computer I get an error
> that says I need cygwin1.dll.

Static linking is not possible with Cygwin. Neither is it possible with
Mingw32, but the advantage there is that the appropriate runtime is already
on all the Win9x/NT machines (CRTDLL.DLL).

Regards,
Mumit