On 10.05.2011 12:20, some868one wrote: > I checked many of the test executables, none of them depend on the FLTK libs! > are the libs just for development?
Yes, and you will need them to develop (link) your own programs, of course. > if the answer is yes, of course I don't need the cygwin FLTK libs, I don't > plan to develop for X11 soon. Hmm, that's two (or more) different points mixed in one (sentence). I don't want to be nitpicking, but to explain it more precisely: your Cygwin (or MinGW) development environment is what it is said: only for /development/. Your goal (and that of many Windows dev's) is to produce native Windows executables that don't depend on any Cygwin (or MinGW) dlls, so that they can be distributed freely and without the known dll hell. There are some problems, however: with the default Cygwin (FLTK) options you will get FLTK programs that depend on X11 (as you said), but that can be changed. The more important point is that you will likely also get programs that depend on cygwin1.dll, and this is not only a serious problem for distribution, but also (and maybe more important) a license problem (you need to buy a license). The next problem results from recent changes in gcc/g++ 4.5.x and newer. Their(!) default build mode is to link dynamic to libgcc and libstdc++ (the dlls), so that you would need to distribute these dlls with your executable. The reason for this lies in improved exception handling, but if you can live without this, then the "-static-*" options you used in the configure line are there to avoid this. Hence, with these options, you can distribute your executables as single .exe files w/o any dependencies. As Ian said, this is somewhat easier with MinGW, but since the newest versions use gcc 4.5+ as well, the "-static-*" problem exists for MinGW as well. However, you don't need to use a "cross compiler", and you will see that building your own programs with Cygwin's cross compiler is much more complicated than with MinGW (if you try and compare...). Albrecht _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
