how about dem 64bits?

Anders Bergh anders1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 08:46:20 PDT 2008


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Tim Burrell <tim at timburrell.net> wrote:
>  This is the wrong way to go.  Cygwin compiled executables definitely need
> cygwin to run!  When you're running something under cygwin you're actually
> running an app that is using a windows port of the linux programming APIs.
> If you compile an app using gcc under cygwin you're explicitly linking it to
> the cygwin environment.
>
>  Yeah you can still redistribute it, but you'll need to distribute the
> appropriate cygwin dll's and so forth along with your app.
>
>  mingw and gdc win (http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/) are really what he
> wants.  I've been using mingw and gdcwin to create binary redistributable
> windows apps for some time now (yes with Tango), without any issues
> what-so-ever.
>
>  Dominik, if you have any specific problems, maybe we can help you sort them
> out.
>
>  Tim.
>

I believe you can pass -mno-cygwin to make it use the mingw stuff instead.

Anders



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