Re: [Mingw-users] Mingw status

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Brian Dessent <br...@de...>:

> fo...@sm... wrote:
>
>> 1) With mingw I think that when you compile a C++ application, you are
>> statically linked with libstdc++, is it still true ?
>> If yes what are the reasons ...
>
> The default is still static libstdc++ but you can link to shared
> libstdc++ in the 4.2 and later MinGW gcc versions with -lstdc++_s (and
> sometimes -D_DLL, see release notes.)  The reason is simple: people have
> come to expect MinGW to produce standalone executables that don't
> require third party runtime DLLs.
>
>> 2) There were also limitations about exception not passing Dll boundaries,
>> still true ?
>
> This was not true in the past and not true now.  MinGW gcc 3.x contained
> a patch that allowed it to work with static libgcc.  With gcc 4.x that
> patch no longer exists, but it's still possible to support this with
> -shared-libgcc.
>
> Brian
>

Brian, do you have time to review the documentation at www.mingw.org 
for gcc/g++/library use and update what is wrong/out of date?

Earnie