Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <008801c35354$3c1a2310$a29c883e@starfruit> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Mukul Sabharwal" , References: <000f01c3534f$48481070$e0807518@PAURIDGE> Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll not found, embedding dll into EXE Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:59:33 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Mukul Sabharwal wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Cygwin on my system, and ported my apps to Win32 (or trying > to). This is a Windows XP system, and after using g++ it gave me the error > message that I needed the cygwin1.dll, I copied it to the working folder of > the exe file and it ran. > > Is there a way to automatically set this ? I don't understand your question. > Also, how do I distribute my windows executables ? Do I need to provide the > cygwin1.dll in the same location ? Is this the only file or anyother file is > required ? Sorry if it has been answered, you could point me to the right > direction. Ideally, you distribute your app without cygwin1.dll, and ask people to install Cygwin. Your app is open source, right? > P.S.- Can the cygwin1.dll be linked statically into the EXE file ? No. Max. -- 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/