From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26319 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2011 22:19:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 26311 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Feb 2011 22:19:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm7-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (HELO nm7-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com) (98.139.91.192) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:19:26 +0000 Received: from [98.139.91.63] by nm7.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2011 22:19:25 -0000 Received: from [98.136.185.29] by tm3.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2011 22:19:25 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp110.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2011 22:19:25 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@72.70.43.36 with login) by smtp110.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 03 Feb 2011 14:19:24 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C514613C0C9 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:19:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id B62FF61EB22; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:19:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:19:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4 Message-ID: <20110203221923.GA18117@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20101017005857.GA28900@const.famille.thibault.fr> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F201762C09@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <20101018125833.GB25504@const> <252576.94771.qm@web25508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20101018213923.GO6369@const.famille.thibault.fr> <30838541.post@talk.nabble.com> <30839509.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <30839509.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00117.txt.bz2 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 -- 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