[Box Backup-dev] COMMIT r342 - in box/trunk: . bin/bbackupquery infrastructure lib/backupclient lib/win32

Chris Wilson boxbackup-dev@fluffy.co.uk
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:47:37 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Charles,

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Charles Lecklider wrote:

> Can MinGW not link its libraries statically?

I have not found a way to do so, and I saw some comments in mailing lists 
that said that no static version of these libraries (e.g. mingwm10.lib) 
was available, although that may have changed.

See this post for example:

> The mingwm10 must be build as a dll, because it use features the from 
> DllMain (thread detach) to cleanup eh [exception handling] after thread
> termination (free some memory).

[http://sourceware.org/ml/pthreads-win32/2000/msg00141.html]

Cheers, Chris.
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