> A DLL can never be statically linked. I meant "every dependent compiled object included in the libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll is statically linked" > If you want to be sure whether or not your executables depend on that > DLL, use the "depends" tool, which you can download from the net -- > just run it as in "depends emacs.exe" and it will show a window with > all the DLLs that the binary wants to load. Or use objdump that you > already have, like this: > objdump -x emacs.exe | fgrep "DLL Name:" Official emacs.exe, 2013-03-13 14:38, 9.031.038 bytes objdump -x emacs.exe | fgrep "DLL Name:" yields DLL Name: ADVAPI32.DLL DLL Name: COMCTL32.DLL DLL Name: COMDLG32.DLL DLL Name: GDI32.dll DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll DLL Name: MPR.DLL DLL Name: msvcrt.dll DLL Name: OLE32.dll DLL Name: SHELL32.DLL DLL Name: USER32.dll DLL Name: USP10.DLL DLL Name: WINMM.DLL DLL Name: WINSPOOL.DRV So I asume there is no dependency on libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll. I have always run emacs.exe with no libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll around. Miguel. 2013/4/4 Eli Zaretskii > > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:45:59 +0200 > > From: Miguel Ruiz > > > > AFAIK, libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll is statically linked so it is irrelevant the > > origin of the file. > > A DLL can never be statically linked. > > If you want to be sure whether or not your executables depend on that > DLL, use the "depends" tool, which you can download from the net -- > just run it as in "depends emacs.exe" and it will show a window with > all the DLLs that the binary wants to load. Or use objdump that you > already have, like this: > > objdump -x emacs.exe | fgrep "DLL Name:" > > The latter only shows the names of the DLLs, not their absolute file > names. > > > I have experienced the same crashes and I can confirm two things: > > - No crashes with gcc v3.x.x > > - No crashes with gcc v4.5 sjlj > > > > And this thread< > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27481215>might > > confirm the last point. > > > > Now I am going to build with tdm-gcc-4.7.1-2 > > MinGW > > sjlj , and test stability. If > anyone > > would like to test my binaries, please, let me know: I will be pleased. > > If the above methods show that your binary depends on > libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, you _must_ tell your users which one of them is > actually linked into the binary. The "depends" tool will show you a > full path to the DLL which the binary will use, and the linker links > against the DLL which came with the version of GCC you used to compile > Emacs. You should tell the users "get libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll from GCC > version 4.x.y that you find on this-and-that site". > > Thanks. >