[clue-talk] Re: Linux auto-install DB and other stuff

[Angelo Bertolli]

Matt Gushee wrote:

> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>
>> On 01-24 15:16, Matt Gushee wrote:
>>
>>> Another problem is that in order to *use* an application developed with
>>> Cygwin, you have to have Cygwin installed. So if you are trying to 
>>> develop
>>> applications that non-technical people can easily install and use, 
>>> Cygwin
>>> is not an option.
>>
>>
>> A small quibble. In gcc under Cygwin, there is the -mno-cygwin option 
>> which
>> lets you create binaries that run in Windows natively.
>
>
> Good point, and I think I've actually heard of that before. So maybe 
> what I said is not true for C applications. I was actually thinking 
> more in terms of OCaml, which is my main language. For some reason 
> when you compile an OCaml application under Cygwin the user also needs 
> to have Cygwin. I've been meaning to learn more about how to work with 
> OCaml on Windows, but since there's no  pressing need to do it, I 
> haven't gotten around to it.

Actually, all you really need are some dlls that come with cygwin.  If 
you run cygcheck on your executable, it will tell you which dlls you 
should distribute with your app, and at the very least Windows check the 
current directory for needed dlls.  Yeah, it does make things a little 
more bloated.

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