Running an application, compiled in cygwin, without having cygwin installed

Question

Let\'s say I have an application which I compiled under cygwin, and I want to distribute that application without having the user to install cygwin. Would it be enough to packag

Answer 1

Normally, yes. Be sure to install the Cygwin DLL in a public location though (Windows\System32), this DLL behaves very badly when multiple versions of it are loaded on the same machine.