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Re: Compiling a DLL
"BARTHEL, MATTIAS" wrote:
> What are the procedures for compiling a DLL without using the Cygwin
> DLL?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC94
In short: if you want to use Cygwin's posix emulation layer then you
will be linking to cygwin1.dll and your program will be GPL[1]. There's
no way to statically compile an app that still uses the emulation layer
but doesn't depend on the DLL. You can compile a mingw app of course
with the -mno-cygwin switch, but the amount of unix-like functionalty
that's supported is very much a subset of what you get with Cygwin. If
this is what you want then you need to ask your question on the mingw
list.
Brian
[1] Unless you pay Redhat for their commercial license.
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