From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203221923.GA18117@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30839509.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:21:39PM -0800, gvidaver wrote:
>To clarify : you can't make an executable that copies the dll or
>library code into the executable itself. When the exe launches it will
>look for cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin. So it will fail to launch on a
>system that doesn't have cygwin installed.
Nope. Cygwin doesn't look in /usr/bin. If you could get something like
that to work you'd just have to adhere to the GPL. That's all.
>If I understand the cygwin license, this is intended as a way to help
>RedHat make money from cygwin (this intent is fine by me) by forcing
>you to pay them for a solution to this problem.
You don't understand the license. Please stop attempting to give advice.
The thread is five months old. We don't need further discussion.
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-17 7:02 Samuel Thibault
2010-10-17 8:15 ` R: " Marco Atzeri
2010-10-17 22:46 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-10-18 12:58 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2010-10-18 13:12 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-10-18 13:53 ` Marco Atzeri
2010-10-19 7:46 ` Samuel Thibault
2011-02-03 19:34 ` gvidaver
2011-02-03 19:48 ` marco atzeri
2011-02-03 21:21 ` gvidaver
2011-02-03 22:19 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2011-02-03 19:50 ` Charles Wilson
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