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

Eric Z. Ayers eric.ayers at mindspring.com
Tue Jun 12 04:54:52 EDT 2001


What you want to do in this case is create an Install Shield that 
installs Cygwin first, and then your program.

Bao C. Ha wrote:

> 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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