Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Support for Windows 95/98/ME? (was: Solving the Pthreads issue)

[Tony Theodore]

On 15 May 2010 04:34, Gregory Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2010, Tony Theodore wrote:
>
>> With some searching it seems a mix of adding -static -static-libgcc
>> -no-exceptions and removing -mthreads will remove the dependency. Most
>> of what I've seen is not definitive, but this
>>
>>
>> http://www.qtcentre.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_static_Qt_on_Windows_with_MinGW
>>
>> seems a good place to start.
>
> -no-exceptions is a killer, though--why even bother with C++ at that point!
> Fortunately, those instructions are quite old, before the patch being
> discussed was even written. I'm hopeful they're no longer necessary.

Yes, I read too many snippets to keep track, but for recent projects,
the -static-libgcc flag seems to be the most important. I guess it's a
matter of testing, testing, testing. The problem is that we can't see
what breaks till runtime - maybe we just remove the dll and wait for
questions ;)

Tony