As far as I understand it, building with MinGW results in stand-alone executables, as opposed to building with Cygwin, which creates dependencies to cygwin.dll. None of them requires some sort of runtime though, that would be absolutely horrible. :-)
All the windows versions I've used have been stand-alone executables that you could run with parameters like usual, or pass some windows-specific parameters telling it to install itself as a service. I like that model, I mean it's a 80kB command-line executable, it really doesn't have to be more complicated than that. /Henrik On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:20, Trond Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you need to install a runtime to run a binary compiled with MinGW, or is > there just one binary we need to release? > > If we can release a single binary that a user can download "we" (aka the > community) could provide a binary for each release to ease the pain for the > average windows developer... > > Cheers, > > Trond > >
