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Re: But it is cygwin related.


On 4/4/2013 2:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
It occurred to me to mention to the OP that the
mingw package (minimal Gnu for Windows is what I think
it stands for) is a lighter weight version of the gcc
stuff for Windows.  It does not try to "fake" a Linux
environment to the extent that cygwin does, so it is
simpler and smaller, as I understand it.  (I am less
familiar with mingw than with cygwin.)  Still, there
may be something there more suited to your needs.

Seeing as I had mingw installed, I built the same little
programs with it. Stripped .exe files turned out to be
6144 bytes long.  ldd showed a long list of dlls that
would be dynamically linked at run time, but they are
all Windows dlls -- no cygwin or "custom" mingw ones.
So, maybe this is more what you meant originally.

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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