Problem creating an exe from C

Question

Hello. I've made a small application in C with Netbeans. I've ran the application in Netbeans and it created an exe. I used that exe and it worked fine on my comp but when I move it to other comp it says: "This application failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

How can i create the exe so that it runs anywhere?

Answer 1

The problem is you're using Cygwin GCC to compile your code. Cygwin provides a unix-like environment

• if you're not doing anything Unix-y you can recomplie -mno-cygwin - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/340696/can-you-statically-compile-a-cygwin-application
• if you are using Unix calls you'll need to distribute cygwin1.dll along with your app
• or you can recompile with a different compiler, e.g. a GCC that targets mingw32 not cygwin, or one of the free (as-in-beer) Microsoft compilers from the platform SDK or Visual Studio Express downloads.