It's all in how the gcc linker for cygwin works. Just pass it the option -mnocygwin (or something similar, like -mno-cygwin) and it won't require the cygwin.dll anymore. If that's not exact, just search online for it or through the man pages. I did the same thing for a while.
--Greg On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Jeremy Erickson <jerickson...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > For BibleMemorizer, I am attempting to create Windows binaries. I > would like > to have a working Windows binary of Sword. However, the only build I was > successful in creating was using Cygwin, in which case I get undefined > reference errors if I don't link with the Cygwin DLL. I tried > using --host=i686-pc-mingw32, but it didn't make a difference. I also tried > building against straight MinGW with MSYS, but for some reason almost > everything I do in MSYS results in sh.exe segfaulting, which means something > is wrong with my install, even though I followed the instructions on the > MinGW site. > It might actually be easiest if someone has a pre-built .a library for > Sword. > Otherwise, is there something I'm missing in ./configure in order for it to > build a non-Cygwin dependent binary? Or are there better/easier instructions > for setting up MSYS than http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys ? I found that > process quite cumbersome, and the resulting setup simply doesn't work. (I > failed to compile autoconf with the same problems Sword gave me.) > I have never really compiled anything on Windows not using Visual > Studio, > unless I was using Cygwin and didn't care if it linked the DLL. (The vast > majority of my experience is on Linux, and the rest on Mac OS X which is > similar.) However, for distribution, I would prefer not to have to link it. > Also, where does the Windows version of Sword look for modules by > default? > > -Jeremy Erickson > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
