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Asked: 2026-05-15T14:14:13+00:00

I’ve made a small application in C with Netbeans. I’ve ran the application in

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I’ve made a small application in C with Netbeans.
I’ve ran the application in Netbeans and it created an exe.
I used that exe and it worked fine on my comp but when I move it to other comp it says:
“This application failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.”

How can i create the exe so that it runs anywhere?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is you’re using Cygwin GCC to compile your code. Cygwin provides a unix-like environment

    • if you’re not doing anything Unix-y you can recomplie -mno-cygwin – see Can you statically compile a cygwin application?
    • if you are using Unix calls you’ll need to distribute cygwin1.dll along with your app
    • or you can recompile with a different compiler, e.g. a GCC that targets mingw32 not cygwin, or one of the free (as-in-beer) Microsoft compilers from the platform SDK or Visual Studio Express downloads.
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