https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/support-requests/195/2024-01-12T17:36:38.338000ZRecent changes to 195: How to distribute compiled programs (DLLs? static linking?)2024-01-12T17:36:38.338000Z2024-01-12T17:36:38.338000ZPhilipp Klaus Krausehttps://sourceforge.net/u/spth/https://sourceforge.net62101c6d6b06c3cceba9d6f2b130682c32ff976a

<div class="markdown_content"><p>I am facing the common problem of a program (SDCC) where binaries for Windows should be distributed. The Windows build is cross-compiled on GNU/Linux compiled with MinGW-w64.</p> <p>Of course, I run into the problem that MinGW-w64 compiled software depends on DLLs. So I either should link statically instead, or have to somehow find those DLLs (automatically in the build scripts) to distribute them with the compiled binaries.</p> <p>Finding the DLLs is apparently not trivial; people have come with complex solutions, such as <a href="https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2018/05/07/mingw-copy-dlls/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2018/05/07/mingw-copy-dlls/</a> and <a href="https://github.com/Unvanquished/release-scripts/blob/master/build-release;" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Unvanquished/release-scripts/blob/master/build-release;</a> however, AFAIK no such tools is currently included in MinGW-w64. I haven't looked into static linking yet.</p> <p>Is there a good and easy way to distribute MinGW-w64-compiled programs for use on Windows? What is the recommended way for this use-case?</p></div>