[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Support Requests-425488 ] libstdc++.dll required?

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Support Requests item #425488, was updated on 2001-05-19 12:22
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Wirawan Purwanto (wirawan0)
>Assigned to: Danny Smith (dannysmith)
Summary: libstdc++.dll required?

Initial Comment:
I just downloaded the newest GCC (MinGW) version 
2.95.2-3 (2001-03-29). And in the change log 
(http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?
release_id=29064) I found the following sentences 
which bother me:

"Shared libstdc++ provided. This means that C++ apps 
will be linked against it by default and depend on 
bin/libstdc++.dll"

I have been looking around the MinGW website all day 
and could not find any more hint than this (found in 
SourceForge). It seems to me that the new EXE files 
(compiled with the new compiler under new 
configurations) will depend on this file 
(libstdc++.dll) by default.

Although I have not yet checked the licensing of this 
file, this "feature" seems to be a "problem" to me. I 
want my EXE to be independent of any .DLL (except the 
MS runtime DLLs, which we can't avoid unless we want 
to make the EXE giant). Isn't this the "spirit" of the 
MinGW from the beginning (at least so in my 
understanding)?

Could you explain why this new "feature" is made 
default? Also, how to remove the dependency of 
libstdc++.dll for the produced EXE's?

Thanks,
Wirawan

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>Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2001-06-16 09:21

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The MinGW-1.0 snapshot release has removed the dll shared libraries.  All of the GCC runtime support 
beyond what is already supplied on your computer is now not required.

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