On 10/14/2012 6:31 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>   C:\cygwin\bin\cyggif-4.dll
>     C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll
>     C:\cygwin\bin\cygX11-6.dll
>       C:\cygwin\bin\cygxcb-1.dll
>         C:\cygwin\bin\cygXau-6.dll
>         C:\cygwin\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll

That looks like a separate problem with Cygwin's libgif.  Ldd on cyggif-4.dll
itself reports the X11 dependency. I'd be happy requiring the X11 DLLs until we
fix the problem over in Cygwin. I'd also be happy compiling --without-gif: it's
up to you.