Re: [avrdude-dev] -static on cygwin

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Sander Pool wrote:

> I missed the beginning of the thread but why would it be bad to ship two
> additional dlls?

Ideally, i think he'd like to get it without any additional DLLs,
because DLLs are always a pain in the butt to handle.  What if the
next application to install comes with a different version of that
DLL?  You probably know the dilemma better than me. ;-)  (I don't have
Windows, and don't want one. :)

> If you link statically you wouldn't save any space, right?

You will, unless your application needs /any and all/ functions out of
the libraries. ;-)  Also, it's fairly unlikely that any other program
running at the same time might really share some code from those DLLs,
so the point of a shared library is not met anyway.  (There's one other
application for a shared library, to provide a run-time plugin that can
easily be exchanged, but that doesn't apply here either.)

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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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