Question on static Cygwin-hosted applications

Tue Jul 25 15:22:00 GMT 2006

On 25 July 2006 15:55, Bill Gatliff wrote:
 Hi Bill!
> I'm in the odd place where I need a statically-linked GNU cross
> toolchain that runs under Win32. The idea is that I could then take my
> toolchain directory and move it over to another Win32 machine that
> doesn't have any special runtime environment previously installed and it
> Should Just Work.
>> My understanding of Cygwin is that this isn't possible, was never
> possible, won't ever be possible:
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2000-12/msg01150.html
>> ... and I don't have a problem with that. Really. But as of today, is
> this still true?

 Yep. A dll is still a dynamic link library, and cygwin is still a dll, and
in fact innately relies on being one, in order to be able to rely on such
features as DllMain being called every time a thread starts or dies.
 You want to buid a mingw hosted compiler if you want it to run without
cygwin dll present. You can do that under cygwin with configure arguments:
--host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=${your_x_target} CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' CXX='g++
-mno-cygwin'
as the cygwin native gcc supports x-compilation to mingw.
 cheers,
 DaveK
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