I was under the impression that the c++ standard library ABIs (?) were such
that static linking was a no-no. did that change?
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>2014/1/20 Baruch Burstein <[email protected]>
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>On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:58 PM, lh_mouse <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>MinGW uses MSVCRT.DLL which shipps with Windows XP so there is no additional
>>CRT DLL needed to redistribute.
>>>
>>
>>
>>If MinGW64-compiled executables use MSVCRT.DLL as a runtime, then what do
>>they use libgcc.dll for? Isn't it also just a c runtime library?
>
>
>Yes and no, it contains functions that GCC internally generates calls to for
>various reasons (math, exceptions, memory management for certain language
>features...). You can link it statically by using -static-libgcc.
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>
>>But you still have to redistribute the libgcc DLL(libgcc_s.dll) and libstdc++
>>DLL(libstdc++-6.dll). You can get these files from /mingwXX/bin directory,
>>where XX is 32 or 64.
>>>
>>
>>
>>Is there an option to statically link the libgcc/libstdc++-6, so as not to
>>have to distribute the .dll?
>>
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>
>Either -static, which links everything statically if available, or
>-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++, which only uses the static versions of the
>two runtime libraries.
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>Cheers,
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>Ruben
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