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 >>> >>> -- >>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >>> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >>> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/-static-not-working-with-gcc-4.3.4-tp29981383p30838541.html >> Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> >> > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-static-not-working-with-gcc-4.3.4-tp29981383p30839509.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple