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Re: Help! How to find newlib?


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Xin Jin  wrote:
> Hallo all,
>
> i'm using cygwin 1.7 for porting of a c/c++ written program from linux on
> windows and want to get an executable file which is independable with cygwin.
> This program needs "glibc" (the standard c library), particuly the pread,
> pwrite function inside it. It is described in the cygwin user's guide that
> newlib instead of glibc is used in cygwin. So the questions are:
>
> Is newlib already included in cygwin? But i can't find it with the
> unix-command find / -name "newlib" in my cygwin directory. Or some packages
> must be selected in the cygwin to get the "newlib"?

newlib is used to build the cygwin1.dll.

As  you need a stand alone version you need to look at
http://sourceware.org/newlib/


>
> Please help me!

google is your friend ;-)

>
>
> best regards
> Xin

Marco

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