[ale] Don't flame me -- More Info

Bao C. Ha baoha at sensoria.com
Mon Jun 11 12:11:44 EDT 2001



Have you tried with the -static flag?  I am not familiar
with Cygwin, but I have used that to avoid using the shared
libraries.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Cade
> Thacker
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 6:04 AM
> To: Eric Z. Ayers
> Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: Re: [ale] Don't flame me -- More Info
> 
> 
> Hello, I got online this morning to ask this specific 
> question, and lo and
> behold, the thread is already started. I have started back to 
> school, and
> am learning writing C++, so my teacher used Visual C++ but 
> told us to use
> what we are comfortable with.  So here is my question, I downloaded
> cygwin, and so far so good. But I need to give her an executable, 
> 
> if I compile my (very simple) code under the cygwin shell, 
> all is good,
> if I try and run it from the DOS command line then i get the error "A
> required .DLL file, CYGWIN1.DLL, was not found.  So I copied 
> the exe file
> to my bin dir and then it runs fine under because it is in 
> the same dir as
> the dll.  So here is my question, 
> 
> How do I compile this file, so that my prof can run it on her computer
> that does not have the cywin dll?
> 
> 
> --cade
> 
> "Burn your tv in your yard, and gather round it with your friends,
> and warm your hands upon the fire and start again" --Toad the 
> Wet Sprocket
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> 
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
> 
> > OK,  so what is it that you really want?
> > 
> > I don't want to flame, but cygwin is the tool that is 
> written exactly 
> > for what you want to do,  and you only have to install one 
> DLL to get 
> > portability between UNIX and Win32. 
> > 
> > We have had good luck with cygwin and adding on the win32 pthread 
> > portability library to write an application that does a lot 
> of file io 
> > and network io.
> > 
> > -Eric.
> > 
> > Chris Fowler wrote:
> > 
> > > I'most concerend with I/O and win32 console applications. 
>  I need to 
> > > do pipes, dups, selects, async i/o, etc.  A lot of communications 
> > > stuff.    I don't really want to make cygwin a 
> requrirement for my 
> > > applications.  I look at it as more of a crutch.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > >     -----Original Message-----
> > >     *From:* Michael Smith [mailto:MSmith at webtonetech.com]
> > >     *Sent:* Friday, June 08, 2001 9:54 AM
> > >     *To:* Chris Fowler
> > >     *Subject:* RE: [ale] Don't flame me
> > >     
> > >     It depends on what your porting and how complicated 
> the program
> > >     is.  Is it GUI based or command line?
> > >     
> > >         -----Original Message-----
> > >         *From:* Chris Fowler [mailto:ChrisF at computone.com]
> > >         *Sent:* Friday, June 08, 2001 9:54 AM
> > >         *To:* 'ale at ale.org'
> > >         *Subject:* [ale] Don't flame me
> > >         
> > >         I need to write some win32 programs.  Is there a 
> good book on
> > >         porting from UNIX to win32.  And I mean good book.
> > >         
> > >         Chris
> > >         
> > 
> > 
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