From: Eli Z. <el...@gn...> - 2012-08-05 16:44:29
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You replied to the wrong thread; hopefully, this will bring it back. > Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:36:43 +0200 > From: Philip Köster <phi...@we...> > > I thought I had understood everything. But now it looks I didn't get a > thing. > > You mean, I should redistribute the sources? Not necessarily, see below. > Isn't that pretty pointless in the ages of the Internet? Wouldn't it > suffice to give the credits in a top-level `README'? No. > To everybody that is really interested in answering my question, please > leave four or five bullet points on what I have to do, and I will > follow. Thank you. I will try. You don't need to distribute sources of GCC components if you link those components statically into your binaries. As Greg pointed out, using the '-static-libgcc' switch to GCC when linking C and C++ programs, and in addition '-static-libstdc++' when linking C++ programs will accomplish that. If you do not use the above switches, then your binaries will by default be linked against DLL versions of the GCC libraries, and then you will have to distribute the sources of those DLLs. OK? |