Help cross compiling for MingW32 standalone executables.

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed May 14 00:56:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:23:26PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>Here is a specific example:
>
>$ cat test.c
>#include <math.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>int main()  {
>  void *s=sin;
>  return (size_t)s;
>}
>
>$ gcc -mno-cygwin -o test.exe test.c -lm
>
>$ strings test.exe |grep dll
>msvcrt.dll
>cygwin1.dll
>KERNEL32.dll
>
>It turns out this example works fine, if I leave off -lm.  If there is a
>flag I can set so a "configure" script will think -lm does not exist, my
>problem would be solved.

Something as simple as

  ar cru /usr/lib/mingw/libm.a

Might solve your problem.

This will produce an empty libm.a file which should be found prior to
the cygwin libm.a.

cgf

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