Przemyslaw Sliwa wrote: > > Woooooww, > > It seems it is much more complicated than just the simple STATIC option in GCC under > Linux. > But there must be a way to link the executable with the dlls. Like in Linux.
No, there really isn't a way. You cannot compare the two situations because they are not the same thing. When you link against a dynamic library under linux all you're doing is dynamically linking to functions so that they can be called from your code. But the Cygwin DLL provides an entire POSIX emulation layer between your program and Windows. This means that when it starts up it does a number of initialization tasks, including creating its own segment of shared memory, common to all Cygwin apps, to maintain state information, tables of handles, processes, etc. In other words there's a lot of magic going on in the background to provide you with that spiffy POSIX interface, and it's not so simple as saying "Why can't I just link statically?" Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
