Compiling with gcc (cygwin on windows)

Question

I have cygwin on windows through which I run gcc. But after creating .exe files, if I run them on other computers which dont have cygwin, it says cygwin1.dll not found. Is there a way to compile them so that they run on any system?

Answer 1

In your case, try to copy cygwin1.dll as well (but it could depend on other DLLs as well) (of course you must comply with Cygwin's license with regards to distributing cygwin1.dll)
In cygwin, you can always check the needed modules using:

objdump -p a.exe | grep 'DLL Name'

OR

cygcheck ./a.exe

or for windows in general, use something like this tool: Dependency Walker