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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:31:11 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: how to static link?
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:11:21AM +0800, D G wrote:
> > I've tried linking with gcc -static, and even specified static libraries as /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a, but still cygwin produces a dynamically linked executable.  How can I compile a statically linked executable?
> 
> You can't. Cygwin isn't statically linkable.

Corinna is referring to the cygwin1.dll dependency.  However, the X11
libraries are ALSO only distributed as dll's --- that "libX11.a" file is
NOT a static lib.  It's an import lib for /usr/X11R6/bin/libX11.dll.

Some libraries are distributed in the cygwin package as both static libs
and as dll's (zlib, libpng, a few others).  You may use -static along
with certain compiletime flags to force static linking to *those*
libraries --- but you'll still be dynamically linked to cygwin1.dll and
the Xlibs.  For more information, see the README's in /usr/doc/Cygwin/

--Chuck

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