How to compile without linking cygwin library?
Christopher Faylor
cgf-rcm@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 24 19:21:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:42:27PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
>A discussion about different compilers currently takes place on polish
>c/c++ newsgroup. One person mentioned that code compiled with MinGW gcc
>don't have to be published under GPL license, but Cygwin gcc automatically
>links cygwin library so the binary file can be distributed only under GPL.
Correct.
>Is it possible to make gcc work in the mode like in MinGW, where cygwin
>library isn't present?
Yes. Use -mno-cygwin which is roughly the same thing as mingw.
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