what

i've just upgraded my copy of mingw from 4.4 to 4.6, and now i've had to recompile some libs and use static linking to stdlibs in my prog. why?

I sure hope you always statically link your programs.

>>2 same. who would want to have to deal with all of that space - wasting dependency - troubled overhead of handling a collection of DYNAMIC LIBRARIES. OOoOOO. LOOK AT ME. I INCUR MULTIPLE DISK READS EVERYTIME I WANT TO LOAD A PROGRAM INTO RAM.