From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7382 invoked by alias); 10 May 2011 14:52:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 6020 invoked by uid 22791); 10 May 2011 14:51:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 May 2011 14:51:23 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id E89972C0024; Tue, 10 May 2011 16:51:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:52:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to use windres.exe without installing cygwin? Message-ID: <20110510145120.GA31337@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <31586006.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31586006.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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: 2011-05/txt/msg00123.txt.bz2 On May 10 07:23, ironsand wrote: > > Hi > > I write a script using windres.exe and want to distribute it. I assume you are aware that all these tools including Cygwin are under the GPL and so you have to provide the sources of all tools and DLLs together with the binaries, right? > But I couldn't find which files schould I include in my package. > [...] > I know if I install cygwin from setup.exe to Vista, then I can use > windres.exe. > But I don't want to let all users to install cygwin. > > Is there someone who knows how to include windres.exe in a software without > installing cygwin? %-| You can't. Windres is a Cygwin tool using the Cygwin DLL. Gcc is a Cygwin tool using the Cygwin DLL. Either you provide *all* the stuff required to run the script (and don't forget to provide the sources as well), or you let the user install Cygwin via setup.exe. This is the preferred method anyway. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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