Re: libgmp-10.dll not found

> On 09/04/12 10:16, Keith Marshall wrote:
>
> ...snip
>>> Ultimately, the cleanest technique would be static linking... but
>>> unfortunately MinGW does not provide static libraries.
>> Well, that isn't likely to happen; (why do so many Windoze users exhibit
>> this irrational aversion to using DLLs?)
>>
>
>  From my point of view, the difference is between writing a program on a
> machine on which the MinGW toolchain is installed, and deploying a
> program on a machine on which MinGW is not installed. For the former, a
> static build is pointless. For the latter, a static build is, IMHO, a
> clean way of producing an program with no additional dependencies.
> There's the faff of copying the DLLs across in addition to the EXE - OK
> , a minor chore but I have had users delete DLLs because they thought
> they were not needed. (Program stopped working - doh!) So unless it's a
> native system DLL, my view is that it's unwise to (dynamically) link
> against it for _deployable_ versions of programs. But maybe that's my
> particular compartmentalised way of looking at the world...
>
> So I don't think it's fair to say "irrational aversion" - quite the
> opposite. But you may not agree with the rationale.
>
> P.