Can someone tell me, is static linking of libstdc++(-6 ?) not currently supported in cygwin using the mingw compiler?
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Dennis Isenhour <dennis.isenh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please excuse me if this isn’t the correct place for this question or > if I’ve misunderstood something, or am not understanding something > obvious, but I honestly wasn’t really sure where the best place to ask > was despite looking around for quite some time and I have been unable > to locate anything that directly answers my questions in any of the > forums (on both the cygwin.com and mingw.org sites). > > I am in the process of switching from an older version of cygwin gcc > where I previously used the –mno-cygwin flag in order to utilize the > mingw compiler portion. With the new latest version, it appears I > need to change to explicitly install and utilize the mingw compiler. > After making the change, I have now encountered a situation where my > compiled executable is no longer working/loading correctly. Debugging > the problem using the “cygcheck” tool, I was able to determine that > the object was failing because it could not locate “libstdc++-6.dll”. > > cygcheck: track_down: could not find libstdc++-6.dll > > I thus located ./gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.5.2/debug/libstdc++-6.dll and > copied it to my local build area, which ultimately did in fact resolve > my issue. However, I would prefer NOT to have to distribute this dll > with my executables and so I am thus now attempting to figure out how > I can go about linking this new, apparently required library, > statically, however I can’t seem to locate libstdc++-6.a or > libstdc++-6.so anywhere in my cygwin repository. I've been trying to > make use of '-static-libstdc++' option, however I see that it keeps > telling me that it is not recognized: > > i686-pc-mingw32-gcc: unrecognized option '-static-libstdc++' > > I'm also not real sure what the difference is between libstdc++-6 and > libstdc++, so I'm not positive -static-libstdc++ would be the correct > solution either, even if I could get that to work. > > Anyone who can provide me with any further insight or useful > information would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks in advance. -- 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
