Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.06.2013 12:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> To summarize:
>
>    . This happens due to a bug in the GCC startup and termination code,
>      which check independently for whether libgcc was loaded as a
>      shared library.  When libgcc is not loaded at startup, but is
>      found to be loaded on ext, that code hits an assertion and aborts.
>
>    . The only way around this, besides not using DLLs that depend on
>      shared libgcc, is to link the program with the -shared-libgcc
>      compiler option.

Thanks for the follow-up.

As a practical solution, are there downsides to building Emacs with 
-shared-libgcc option?