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Re: Staticly linking cygwin1.dll to exe?
DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > Can the DLL be statically linked?? DLL stands for Dynamic loading...
>
> It *can* be - I've done it, but it requires some hacks to make it work
> right (like a new malloc and crt0 files). The only reason I did it
> was to profile cygwin itself, and I don't recommend the experience to
> anyone ;-)
>
With hack everything, (if not everything many things) is possible.
What I mean that DLL purpose to consume less resources and load the
libraries dynamically when needed. Otherwise, why not use static libs.
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