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C++: How to ship a single executable without mingwm10.dll

I'm creating a small cross platform program with C++/wxWidgets. By using static linking I managed to get only one .exe file for Windows in the end. However it still requires a small (18 KB) mingwm10.dll

Although I can just distribute my app with this dll, I'd prefer to have it "inside" the .exe... Is it possible?

Thanks

Solution

  • If you use the configure script to compile wxWidgets, add --disable-threads. This will set wxUSE_THREADS to 0, wxThread class and all the code that depends on threads will not be compiled. Automatically mingwm10.dll will not be linked.