Re: Questions I should have asked

[Clive Levinson <clivel bundu com>]

Hi Alf,
Yes, by using the  -mno-cygwin flag, you will not have to provide any
of the Cygwin dlls. You will however, unless you use static linking, have
to provide the GTK dlls. I find it easiest to provide the GTK dlls using
the runtime installer from: http://www.dropline.net/gtk/download.php
This is a nicely packaged runtime environment with an installer.

Under  Cygwin, I find the following command useful, it lists the dlls
that an application is linked against.

objdump -p myapp.exe | grep "DLL Name"


Where do you live? I am from Cape Town, but now live in Canada.
Regards,
Clive




> Clive are you telling me that if I install Cygwin and do as you have laid 
> out I
> get a "stand alone windows executable" without having to copy *.dlls to
> /windows/system32 and rebooting? I really would like to give my user one
> executable rather than an executable and a number of dlls to install. You know
> what users are like.......:-(
>  I am hoping from what you said above that I can go ahead and do all my
> development on Linux(my preference) and when its working copy the source to
> Windows and recompile and, other than any silly errors I made, it should all
> work?
>
>  ---
>
> Regards,
> Alf Stockton    www.stockton.co.za