cygwin and static linking (was: Re: [Demexp-dev] Server address in raw client)

[David MENTRE]

Hello Félix,

address@hidden writes:

> I just tried the new version of the raw client with the --server
> option using tuxinet.linux-france.org and it cannot find the server.
> Is it the proper address?

No. :) It is tuxinette.linux-france.org

> Good news: the client works under DOS ! You just need the cygwin dll.

Cool.

> I tried to compile with -static but it still requests teh cygwin dll.
> Any hint?

Maybe. What is the Makefile line you used to compile the client?
Something like -ccopt -static?

>From Unison manual (another OCaml program), they advise that static
binaries can only be produced with MSVC.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/manual.html
(look for "Windows", " Native version:")

The Win32 releases notes of OCaml is not clear in this regard:
http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/README.win32

I'll ask on OCaml mailing list.

Yours,
d.
-- 
 David Mentré <address@hidden>