-static not working with gcc 4.3.4

[gvidaver]

To clarify : you can't make an executable that copies the dll or library code
into the executable itself.  When the exe launches it will look for
cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin.  So it will fail to launch on a system that doesn't
have cygwin installed.  

If I understand the cygwin license, this is intended as a way to help RedHat
make money from cygwin (this intent is fine by me) by forcing you to pay
them for a solution to this problem.


marco atzeri-4 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:34 PM, gvidaver  wrote:
> 
> what is a new game to continue a thread after 3-4 months ?
> 
>>
>> It still requires the cygwin1.dll:
> 
> of course it is a cygwin program built by the gcc for cygwin .
> 
>>
>> $ g++ -v
>> ...
>> gcc version 4.5.0 (GCC)
>>
>> $ g++ test.c -o test -static
>>
>> $ ldd test.exe
>>        ...
>>        cygwin1.dll => /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll (0x61000000)
>>        ...
>>
>> And apparently the only alternative is mingw, see:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.static-linking
>> "it is not possible to statically link with a Cygwin library to obtain an
>> independent, self-contained executable. "
>>
>> $ i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -v
>> ...
>> gcc version 4.5.1 (GCC)
>>
>> $ i686-w64-mingw32-g++ test.c -o test -static
>>
>> $ ldd test.exe
>>        ntdll.dll => ... path to Windows dlls
>>        kernel32.dll => ...
>>        KERNELBASE.dll => ...
>>        msvcrt.dll => ...
>>
>> (I.e. no dependencies on anything besides system dlls.)
>>
>>
>> Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>
>>> Marco Atzeri, le Mon 18 Oct 2010 14:22:02 +0100, a écrit :
>>>> have you checked if 4.5 has the same problem ?
>>>>
>>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-08/msg00016.html
>>>
>>> It doesn't have the problem any more.
>>>
>>> Samuel
>>>
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