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Subject: why does i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -static fail?
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From: Lee via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Reply-To: Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
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Would someone please explain why adding "-static" makes
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc fail?

This works (or at least the compiler doesn't complain)

$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe         conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre

This does not work

$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe -static conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld:
cannot find -lpcreposix
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld:
cannot find -lpcre
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Why does adding "-static" make it fail?

$ cat conftest-pcre.c
/* i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe -static conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre
 *   and yet this works
 * i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe         conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre
 */
char pcre_compile ();
char regcomp ();
int main () {
return pcre_compile ();
return regcomp ();
  ;
  return 0;
}


Thanks
Lee
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