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From: "Hans-Bernhard Bröker" <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: distinguishing cygwin from mingw binaries
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9972edc-e767-c692-ce3f-9d577ddfc130@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR2001MB1074F351B65B71F7B8B41143F1A90@BN6PR2001MB1074.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>

Am 10.07.2017 um 19:40 schrieb Nellis, Kenneth:
> For my personal use, I use gcc to generate binaries, but occasionally I need
> to make a binary available to someone who doesn't use Cygwin. For that I use
> Cygwin's x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.
> 
> After the fact, I would like to know whether the binary requires Cygwin support
> or not. One way is: strings foo.exe | grep cygwin1.dll

That's a bit too rough.  Something like

	cygcheck ./foo.exe  | grep cygwin1.dll
or	ldd ./foo.exe | grep cygwin1.dll

would be more precise.

> One of my wishes for Cygwin is for the "file" command to make the distinction.

Well, SHTDI. IOW: please don't feel as if anybody were keeping you from 
constructing a 'file' rule that achieves that, and offering it to the 
public.  ;-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-10 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10 17:40 Nellis, Kenneth
2017-07-10 19:01 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker [this message]
2017-07-11 14:20   ` Nellis, Kenneth
2017-07-11 14:37 ` cyg Simple
2017-07-10 18:01 Kaz Kylheku
2017-07-11 14:43 ` cyg Simple

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