On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Keith Marshall
<kei...@us...> wrote:
> On 07/03/12 18:11, David wrote:
>> While I am able to create gzip.exe, it appears that msys-1.0.dll is
>> required to run it.
>
> This suggests that you are using the *MSYS* development tool chain,
> rather than the stock MinGW tools.
>
Or the PATH is set to point to /bin first so that the stock gzip we
deliver which is MSYS dependent is used.
>> Is there any way to have gzip.exe as a standalone app without
>> requiring msys-1.0.dll?
>
> Make sure you have installed the MinGW tools, and do *not* run MSYS in
> its MSYS development personality -- use the standard MinGW personality,
> and be prepared for some porting effort.
The ``uname -a'' command should let you know which flavor MSYS thinks
your build environment is in.
If you grep -li msys-1.0 /mingw/bin/gzip.exe does it return the file name?
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