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Subject: Re: Standalone (.exe) Ada Programs can run in isolation of any ada
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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 18:56:33 +0100
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On 06.02.15 17:50, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

>> The simple way round this is to supply the .exe and the (Ada) .dlls it
>> needs in one directory.
>
> Or link statically; that seems to be a skill that has been lost?

There are/used to be a few glitches linking glibc statically on
GNU/Linux due to some networking routines that are not/were not
included in it (gethost* etc IIRC). I do not know whether or not
this applies to static linking in a GNAT-on-Windows environment.