Re: Building a .exe w/ no cygwin1.dll dependancy...

[mbresnah at visi dot com]

Does -mno-cygwin satisfy your needs?  See the cygwin user manual.

Mike
Quoting Tim Renner <l0ci at hotmail dot com>:

> Does anybody know how to do this?  I've tried building my test program a
> couple different ways
> 
> g++ -o pipetest pipetest.cc /usr/lib/libcygwin.a
> g++ -o pipetest pipetest.cc -lcygwin
> 
> g++ -static -o pipetest pipetest.cc
> g++ -static -o pipetest pipetest.cc -lcygwin
> 
> And no matter what, the resulting executable still depends on cygwin1.dll.
> 
> I would very much prefer not to have to force a completely static build
> because I would like to allow the loading of shared libraries...  I just
> want the C-runtime library provided by cygwin to be statically linked so
> there is no dependancy on the .dll.  Here's my quick test program if anyone
> would like to play with it...
> 
> Thanks,
> -Tim
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> #include <string>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>         std::string cmd = "ls -l";
>         FILE* pipe = popen(cmd.c_str(),"r");
> 
>         do {
>                 char buffer[1024];
> 
>                 fgets(buffer, 1024, pipe);
>                 cout << "Text: " << buffer << flush;
>         } while (! feof(pipe));
>         cout << endl;
> 
>         pclose(pipe);
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
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