From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: Question... 10 Jul 1998 03:14:48 -0700 Message-ID: <35a6ec92.1498044.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 3 DOT 32 DOT 19980708041558 DOT 006a1ecc AT pop DOT cwb DOT matrix DOT com DOT br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Marcel R." Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Marcel, You wrote: >I send a program that i compiled here for a friend... He said that this is >asking for the file cygwin.dll ... To run my program the other person has >to have this dll??? Yep, he has to have this DLL in the same directory the executable is in. It contains the UNIX/POSIX-Emulation-Layer that's been developed to make porting of UNIX Applications to NT as easy as possible. If you don't need that layer and want to compile "real" Win32-executables you can use Jan-Jaap van der Heijden's gcc 2.8.1 or Mumit Khan's egcs 1.0.2 for mingw32. They are available from http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/ and http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/egcs-mingw32.html respectively. bye Michael - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".