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Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Dec 21 03:17:08 UTC 2012


Hugo Soares wrote:
> Hummm...
> I was thinking about compiling the application with MinGW and link it with
> cygwin and with whichever dll SIMTrace would need. At this point we think
> it would be best if the user didn't have to install cygwin, he'd only have
> to install our app which would include cygs dlls.

You have to install Cygwin to build the application, your user only
needs the DLL, as always with Cygwin.


> Do you think that this wouldn't suffice?

Avoid mixing MinGW with Cygwin. MinGW is Windows, Cygwin is *not*
Windows, and they don't mix so great.


//Peter




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