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On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 12:33, John Platts wrote: > Why do mingw32 users continue to use a runtime library dependent of > MSVCRT.DLL? ... > > Cygwin developers: > NOTE: The cygwin setup program should not be linked with MSVCRT.DLL or > CRTDLL.DLL. It should also not be linked with the cygwin library. It needs > to be linked with a static native Win32 C Runtime Library, such as what the > Mingw32 Alternate C Runtime Library is going to be. If you are a developer > wishing to contribute to the library, please do so. Please send email to > jplatts@users.sourceforge.net if you are going to contribute. Developers > should participate in the efforts, so that a Cygwin setup program can be > written the way it should be without having to use a commercial Win32 > compiler such as Microsoft Visual C++.NET. Hi, I'm the cygwin setup.exe maintainer. I don't use any microsoft development tools to build/release/test setup.exe. I think what you are attempting is interesting, and very similar to what cygwin1.dll is - a C runtime (well, cygwin is a posix API runtime including C runtime) for win32. However, I don't have time to help build YACL. Patches to link setup.exe with your mingw ACR will be considered like all other patches - I'm not particularly for or against linking into it. Before I release a version to the web site linked with such a library, the library (as a -devel package) would need to be part of the cygwin net distribution (as a matter of policy I only use tools available via the cygwin net distribution to build and distribute setup.exe). BTW: Your comment about a commercial win32 compiler being needed is 100% inaccurate. Good luck, and cheers. Rob
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