Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:36:02 +0400
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> As a practical solution, are there downsides to building Emacs with 
> -shared-libgcc option?

Just that (AFAIR) the resulting binary will depend on the shared
libgcc DLL, even if you never use gnutls.  But if you are building for
your own usage on your machine, that's not a downside.  If you copy
the binary to another machine, you will needto copy the libgcc DLL as
well.

For someone who wants to distribute the resulting binary, it's a
hassle, because the GPL requires that the entire 80-MB source tarball
of GCC be available from the same site.  (For some reason that is
above my pay grade, statically linked libgcc doesn't require sources,
while dynamically linked one does.)