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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:26:19 -0500
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On 2/7/2012 3:10 PM, carolus wrote:
> On 2/7/2012 1:51 PM, Tim Prince wrote:
>> On 2/6/2012 2:29 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>>
>>> i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran.exe hello.f -o hello
>>>
>>> cdr AT dell03 ~/mingtest
>>> $ ./hello
>>> /home/cdr/mingtest/hello.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
>>> libgfortran-
>>> 3.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>
>>
>> The cygwin distribution of mingw puts the support dlls in their own
>> directories. You must act yourself to get them on PATH. This is a
>> consequence of their not being cygwin compilers and giving you a mongrel
>> combination of cygwin and Windows setup. However, cygwin provides useful
>> tools like find and export:
>> export PATH=/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/:$PATH
>>
>>
> The old -mno-cygwin yielded a standalone executable that I could give to
> a colleague and it would "just work" on a Windows machine without
> cygwin. It appears that now one must bundle at least one dll. From a
> licensing standpoint, are these dll's any different from cygwin1.dll?
> Can they be distributed freely without bundling the source code? If not,
> I might as well forget about mingw and just supply cygwin1.dll.
>

Seems off-topic here.  Does http://www.mingw.org/license begin to answer 
your question?  How about the recent suggestion of -static?


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Tim Prince

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