On 26 Jan 2004 at 21:38, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
On 26 Jan 2004 at 9:46, Russell Whitaker wrote:
Could you dynamic link the Cygwin1.dll ? Just a thought
The DLL *is* dynamically linked to the executables. I think what he meant was that he has to ship the DLL in addition to his executable.
If the program is for your own use on your own system, the size of the Cygwin DLL is a non-issue, since it is already there.
Then I guess the question should be: Could you statically link the Cygwin1 library? :-)
Not ;-/
If you're going to distribute a separate copy of the library with each executable anyway, dynamic linking doesn't make much sense.
No. However, you would expect that the user might have a Cygwin installation anyway - and if s/he doesn't, then there only needs be one copy of the DLL on the system (assuming there are no version conflicts).
Best regards, The Chief -------- Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/