Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "David Carter" To: "'Corinna Vinschen'" Subject: RE: Are G++ generated executables absolutely cygwin1.dll dependent? Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 06:12:28 -0400 Message-ID: <000501c139e1$1cfdbb60$6401a8c0@atl.mediaone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010910101440.K937@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id GAA31939 On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 08:15:10AM +0200, Bart Du Bois wrote: > Greetingz, > > [Problem] > I noticed that executables, generated by the GNU C++ Compiler (g++) can > only be run in coöperation with the file *cygwin1.dll* Corinna Vinschen wrote: > You need the DLL to get the whole POSIX functionality. If you're > only using Win32 API calls you can build using the -mno-cygwin > option. Incomplete answer. Note Bart specifies he is using c++/g++. See recent threads on this list concerning need for the mingw std c++ library, if you're using -mno-cygwin with cygwin's g++. If you're using gcc, and no posix functionality, then -mno-cygwin alone is fine. --- David Carter david AT carter DOT net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/