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 -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
