Please excuse me if this isn’t the correct place for this question or if I’ve misunderstood something, or am not understanding something obvious, but I honestly wasn’t really sure where the best place to ask was despite looking around for quite some time and I have been unable to locate anything that directly answers my questions in any of the forums (on both the cygwin.com and mingw.org sites).
I am in the process of switching from an older version of cygwin gcc where I previously used the –mno-cygwin flag in order to utilize the mingw compiler portion. With the new latest version, it appears I need to change to explicitly install and utilize the mingw compiler. After making the change, I have now encountered a situation where my compiled executable is no longer working/loading correctly. Debugging the problem using the “cygcheck” tool, I was able to determine that the object was failing because it could not locate “libstdc++-6.dll”. cygcheck: track_down: could not find libstdc++-6.dll I thus located ./gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.5.2/debug/libstdc++-6.dll and copied it to my local build area, which ultimately did in fact resolve my issue. However, I would prefer NOT to have to distribute this dll with my executables and so I am thus now attempting to figure out how I can go about linking this new, apparently required library, statically, however I can’t seem to locate libstdc++-6.a or libstdc++-6.so anywhere in my cygwin repository. I've been trying to make use of '-static-libstdc++' option, however I see that it keeps telling me that it is not recognized: i686-pc-mingw32-gcc: unrecognized option '-static-libstdc++' I'm also not real sure what the difference is between libstdc++-6 and libstdc++, so I'm not positive -static-libstdc++ would be the correct solution either, even if I could get that to work. Anyone who can provide me with any further insight or useful information would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. -- 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
