On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:07:15, Steven Penny wrote:
its not a need - its a preference - i prefer static builds - the count of programs i regularly build is small, so the redundancy doesnt hurt my use case. also if I am to share my builds with others it makes for a smoother process - as you can end up with a single exe. notice carefully that many projects offer static and shared builds
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00240.html bumping this thread, as i discovered another package that does not have a static library. here is the current list: - mingw64-x86_64-expat - mingw64-x86_64-fdk-aac - mingw64-x86_64-gnutls - mingw64-x86_64-lua - mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2 - mingw64-x86_64-pcre and here is a list that do include static library: - mingw64-x86_64-curl - mingw64-x86_64-libgnurx - mingw64-x86_64-openssl - mingw64-x86_64-win-iconv - mingw64-x86_64-zlib -- 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
