Re: libgmp-10.dll not found

>> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:15:38 +0800
>> From: JonY <jon_y@...>
>>
>>>  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.
>>
>> I still think it's irrational, Windows people have a weird preference
>> for static linking.
>
> Which now makes _you_ sound "irrational", because, unlike your
> opponents, you gave no rationale whatsoever for your views.
>