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: <4343AC79.7000303@familiehaase.de> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:35:37 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls References: <20051004201411.23476.qmail@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051004201411.23476.qmail@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes James R. Phillips wrote: > Does fixing this bug require upstream intervention, or can you just develop a > patch, and submit it to upstream? A patch would be nice! > Anecdotal evidence [1] exists that this issue may be what prevents compiling a > working version of octave 2.1.71 with gcc 3.4.4. This comes from John Ewing > (octave upstream), who states that he is able to compile a working version with > gcc 3.4.4 only if it is statically linked. > > John also wonders [2] why libstdc++ is static as opposed to shared on cygwin. > I have searched the archives, and verified its static nature, but was unable to > find an explanation. > > [1] http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/3734 > [2] http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/3738 As long as GCC does not support recent libtool versions it is not easy to build dynamic libraries. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/