[ITP] mingw-w64

[JonY]

On 7/4/2010 12:41, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 7/3/2010 9:17 PM, JonY wrote:
>> On 7/4/2010 04:04, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> On 7/3/2010 1:44 PM, JonY wrote:
>>>> On 7/3/2010 11:27, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>>> Oddly, my build doesn't appear to depend on zlib0; libgcc1 and libintl8
>>>>> (and cygwin, of course, but that is never included in requires:).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't? I thought I saw -lz linked in for some executables. OK, will
>>>> remove zlib0, libintl8 and libgcc.
>>>
>>> No, I mean that it doesn't appear to depend on zlib0.  It *does* depend
>>> on libintl8 and libgcc1.
>>
>> So, in requires:, libgcc1 and libintl8 isn't usually listed? If so, are
>> there any such other libraries not to be listed?
>>
>
>
> No, no.  I'm sorry. I must not be expressing myself very well.
>
> cygwin is the only actual requirement that we omit from listing
> explicitly, since EVERYTHING depends on cygwin, and setup.exe knows that.
>
> My original statement should have said:
>
> Oddly, my build doesn't appear to depend on zlib0[.  It does, however,
> depend on] libgcc1 and libintl8 (and [it also depends on] cygwin, of
> course, but that is never included in requires:).
>
> So, IF your binaries are like mine, and do not depend on zlib (but do
> depend on the other three packages), then your requirement line should read:
>
> requires: libintl8 libgcc1
>

Thanks for clearing that up.