From: grantl AT deerinet DOT nb DOT ca ("Grant Leslie") Subject: Re: cygwin.dll 17 Jan 1997 02:20:05 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "GNU-WIN32" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Is it possible to compile programs with win32 gcc so that > the cygwin.dll is not required? > > Nope, that's not possible. > Actually, Check out this place http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/mingw32.html Instead of explaining I'll just cut and paste some text from the readme file for mingw32 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Before You Begin... This archive contains the following basic elements: * The header files, .def file and an import library (for GNU-Win32) to make it possible to use CRTDLL.DLL as your standard C library. * Source and the compiled companion library 'moldname' which makes it possible to use the old names of non-ANSI functions without messing things up too much. It's not called 'oldnames' because Cygnus has a library called oldnames. * Source, object code and a library (for GNU-Win32) to perform application startup using CRTDLL.DLL (and KERNEL32.DLL). Take note of this in particular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV * A specs configuration file which will enable the GNU-Win32 version of GCC to use the previous components to produce Win32 applications with no dependencies on DLL's or anything else not supplied with the currently available Win32 operating systems. ----------------------------------------------------------------- :-) I guess nothing is impossible ;-) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".