I just realized that libc.so on linux is just a linker script and that it is used to link both the shared and static parts of libc.
So, in a similar vein, you could conceivably do something like this on cygwin: /* GNU ld script Use the shared library, but some functions are only in the static library, so try that secondarily. */ GROUP ( /bin/cygwin1.dll /usr/lib/libcygwin_static.a ) I just renamed my libcygwin.a to libcygwin_static.a and copied the above to libcygwin.a. It worked fine. So, if I wanted, I could just produce this script, generate only a libcygwin_static.a and everything would work ok without any changes to gcc's spec file. Apologies if this approach has already been mentioned. I thought it was kinda neat. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
