Subject: Re: Static version of Cygwin DLL?
From: "Paul Garceau" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:43:31 -0800

I stand corrected.

On 27 Dec 2000, at 18:59, the Illustrious DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> > 	By forcing the elimination of cygwin1.dll using -mno-cygwin,
> > you can then do this:
> > 
> > 	gcc -ofoo.exe foo.c -mno-cygwin -lcygwin
> > 
> > 	The default paths already scan the usr/lib directory.  It is
> > the usr/lib directory that has the static version of cygwin
> > (libcygwin.a).
> 
> I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong.  There is no static
> version of the cygwin runtime, period.  The -mno-cygwin option
> tells gcc to cross-compile to the MSVC runtime (i.e. the result
> is *not* a cygwin application).  What you *think* is the "static
> cygwin" is really just the import library for the DLL
> 

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