X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: carolus Subject: Re: Documentation on -mno-cygwin Accuracy Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:10:20 -0600 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <1328569526.8848.3.camel@YAAKOV04> <4F315473.8070106@gmail.com> <4F3180B1.7090007@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4F3180B1.7090007@aol.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 2/7/2012 1:51 PM, Tim Prince wrote: > On 2/6/2012 2:29 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote: > >> i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran.exe hello.f -o hello >> >> cdr@dell03 ~/mingtest >> $ ./hello >> /home/cdr/mingtest/hello.exe: error while loading shared libraries: >> libgfortran- >> 3.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> > > The cygwin distribution of mingw puts the support dlls in their own > directories. You must act yourself to get them on PATH. This is a > consequence of their not being cygwin compilers and giving you a mongrel > combination of cygwin and Windows setup. However, cygwin provides useful > tools like find and export: > export PATH=/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/:$PATH > > The old -mno-cygwin yielded a standalone executable that I could give to a colleague and it would "just work" on a Windows machine without cygwin. It appears that now one must bundle at least one dll. From a licensing standpoint, are these dll's any different from cygwin1.dll? Can they be distributed freely without bundling the source code? If not, I might as well forget about mingw and just supply cygwin1.dll. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple