Static build under Cygwin?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  5 13:23, Chris Rapier wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > You can't build statically against Cygwin and it's not intended to work.
> 
> Just curious, is this by specific design or did it just work out that way?

It's by design.  Cygwin isn't just a lib with function calls, it's
providing lots of shared information between different processes kept by
the DLL in a version specific way.  Stuff like process table, /proc
emulation, pseudo ttys, named pipes, tape access and what not, all
depend on the shared information.

> > Please don't. 
> 
> Which is pretty much why I was looking for a way to build openssh 
> against cygwin statically. I'll probably just end up trying to port the 
> hpn patch over to putty (convincing people to move the globus patch as 
> well might be tough though :) )

Yes, actually it might be better to use an already existing native
Windows application like putty for that.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat