X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:19:23 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4 Message-ID: <20110203221923.GA18117@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20101017005857 DOT GA28900 AT const DOT famille DOT thibault DOT fr> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F201762C09 AT A1DAL1SWPES19MB DOT ams DOT acs-inc DOT net> <20101018125833 DOT GB25504 AT const> <252576 DOT 94771 DOT qm AT web25508 DOT mail DOT ukl DOT yahoo DOT com> <20101018213923 DOT GO6369 AT const DOT famille DOT thibault DOT fr> <30838541 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <30839509 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <30839509.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:21:39PM -0800, gvidaver wrote: >To clarify : you can't make an executable that copies the dll or >library code into the executable itself. When the exe launches it will >look for cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin. So it will fail to launch on a >system that doesn't have cygwin installed. Nope. Cygwin doesn't look in /usr/bin. If you could get something like that to work you'd just have to adhere to the GPL. That's all. >If I understand the cygwin license, this is intended as a way to help >RedHat make money from cygwin (this intent is fine by me) by forcing >you to pay them for a solution to this problem. You don't understand the license. Please stop attempting to give advice. The thread is five months old. We don't need further discussion. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple