On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:59:01PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: >On 4/4/2013 2:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: >>It occurred to me to mention to the OP that the mingw package (minimal >>Gnu for Windows is what I think it stands for) is a lighter weight >>version of the gcc stuff for Windows. It does not try to "fake" a >>Linux environment to the extent that cygwin does, so it is simpler and >>smaller, as I understand it. (I am less familiar with mingw than with >>cygwin.) Still, there may be something there more suited to your needs. > >Seeing as I had mingw installed, I built the same little programs with >it. Stripped .exe files turned out to be 6144 bytes long. ldd showed >a long list of dlls that would be dynamically linked at run time, but >they are all Windows dlls -- no cygwin or "custom" mingw ones. So, >maybe this is more what you meant originally.
If you have to enter MinGW land to perform what the OP wants then that is a really clear indication that this is off-topic. I think we've seen an adequate amount of advice for how the OP can proceed. There was a suggestion that one could look at the disassembled output from gcc to see how it does things. That's probably the best advice for how to proceed, regardless of the platform. -- 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
