X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_BG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F3188EB.6000802@aol.com> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:26:19 -0500 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@computer.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Documentation on -mno-cygwin Accuracy References: <1328569526.8848.3.camel@YAAKOV04> <4F315473.8070106@gmail.com> <4F3180B1.7090007@aol.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:395676672:93952408 X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0 x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d33864f3188ec6b33 X-AOL-IP: 69.133.204.177 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 3:10 PM, carolus wrote: > 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. > Seems off-topic here. Does http://www.mingw.org/license begin to answer your question? How about the recent suggestion of -static? -- Tim Prince -- 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