[PATCH 06/39] win32: add missing system headers

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Apr 27 04:47:17 UTC 2010


On Sunday 25 April 2010 21:00:47 Matthew Stoltenberg wrote:
> So there really is no way to statically link the cygwin dll (looking
> at their list archives and FAQ:
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.win32-no-cygwin)...
>  Even so, it's not too hard to have a single dll copied with your
> busybox binary.

So the cygwin guys disabled static linking to avoid widespread license 
violations on the windows platform.  Sigh.  The solution merely the next set 
of problems.  One more layer of workarounds for the workarounds for the 
workarounds.  It's workarounds all the way down... *

Still, "Windows has chronic problems, lets make them BusyBox's problem" 
doesn't logically follow for me.  Yes, Windows development sucks.  That's why 
I really don't want to get any of it on me.

Denys may have a different opinion, and his is the one that matters, but I 
advise against us going there.

Rob

* With four DLLs standing on the topmost one, supporting a CD-ROM.
-- 
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds


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