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RE: True Static Linking
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Westley Weimer" <weimer at EECS dot Berkeley dot EDU>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <weimer at cs dot berkeley dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:08:58 +1000
- Subject: RE: True Static Linking
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Westley Weimer [mailto:weimer@EECS.Berkeley.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:50 PM
> I am willing to have "hello.exe" be fairly large, but
> shipping all of cygwin1.dll (700K) is not allowed. If this
> were linux I would pull all of the .o files out of cygwin1.a
> (or whatever) and link against a subset of them manually. I
> have no idea how to do this under cygwin.
You can't under linux you would have to ship the vmlinuz file as well -
which is what cygwin1.dll is closest to in this environment.
Rob
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