Re: Custom linking for MinGW gives unwanted dependency on cygwin1.dll

Alain Frisch <[email protected]> Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:31:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ocaml.lib.gtk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/4/2009 11:22 AM, Mike Spivey wrote:
> I'm using the MinGW port of OCaml under Cygwin and trying to build a
> self-contained native windows application that uses lablgtk2.  What I
> find is that linking with 'ocamlc -custom' results in an executable that
> depends on cygwin1.dll.  Further investigation reveals that cygwin1.dll
> is being used for some math functions, and that adding '-ccopt
> -L/lib/mingw' solves the problem.

Oops, flexlink used /lib and /lib/mingw, in this order, and they should 
be swapped. This will be fixed in the next released. Thanks for the 
feedback.

Alain