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Re: Cygwin1.dll
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:46:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: Cygwin1.dll
- References: <13539592.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
sroberts82 wrote:
> Can someone help me understand this, its probably really straightforward but
> I can't find an answer for this.
> Why is it when I build the most basic helloworld.exe and try and run it I
> get told of a dependancy on cygwin1.dll? Why do I need this dll, and what
When you build that program that calls printf("hello world"), where do
you think that implementation of printf comes from? On linux you have a
libc.so, on Cygwin you have a cygwin1.dll, they are analogous.
> how do I build to avoid needing this?
You don't. Or you use something other than Cygwin.
Brian
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