Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B27792F.8860720A@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:31:11 -0400 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: how to static link? References: <20010613031121.22566.qmail@mail.com> <20010613110122.F1144@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:11:21AM +0800, D G wrote: > > I've tried linking with gcc -static, and even specified static libraries as /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a, but still cygwin produces a dynamically linked executable. How can I compile a statically linked executable? > > You can't. Cygwin isn't statically linkable. Corinna is referring to the cygwin1.dll dependency. However, the X11 libraries are ALSO only distributed as dll's --- that "libX11.a" file is NOT a static lib. It's an import lib for /usr/X11R6/bin/libX11.dll. Some libraries are distributed in the cygwin package as both static libs and as dll's (zlib, libpng, a few others). You may use -static along with certain compiletime flags to force static linking to *those* libraries --- but you'll still be dynamically linked to cygwin1.dll and the Xlibs. For more information, see the README's in /usr/doc/Cygwin/ --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple