This issue is or appears resolved, but "Cygwin" dropped off the Reply. Forwarding to the group.. -Scott
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Strugnell [mailto:strugnp1@;cs.man.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 1:50 PM To: Scott Prive Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert a ".so" file to a ".a" file? Scott, Thanks for your speedy reply. I think I'll have to try the emulator. The only problem I have is with linking this library file - everything else is OK, but I don't have access to the source code for the library so I can't recompile it. Once again, thank you for helping me out. Regards Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Prive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Strugnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: RE: Is it possible to convert a ".so" file to a ".a" file? Paul, I'm not sure if (or how) one might convert a .so to a .a file. You'll get other answers (I'm not one of the list experts that's for sure ;-) But if I understand you correctly, you were given ".so" binary files. You won't be able to just take compiled Linux code and run it in Cygwin: Cygwin is not UNIX.. Cygwin is a UNIX-like wrapper around Windows. Cygwin is not an emulator for Linux binaries. Or maybe I misunderstood. If you have Linux binaries you want to use on a Windows PC, you can *try* re-compiling that code under Cygwin. Assuming a few things, UNIX code generally compiles under Cygwin and gives you a Windows binary. The other thing you can try is Linux emulation under Windows. I don't know if this is the best solution for you but it will give you a true Linux sandbox to play in. If you want an emulator samdbox, try Plex86 (formerly FreeMWare): http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86 Plex86 is a work-in-progress and I have not tried it. It is FREE and may be what you want. Another choice is FreeMWare, which is not free and not cheap. I happen to like VMware (and have not had time to try plex86 so I don't know how the two compare). Hope this helps, Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Strugnell [mailto:strugnp1@;cs.man.ac.uk] > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Is it possible to convert a ".so" file to a ".a" file? > > > Hi > > I am trying to work on a University lab exercise from home, > and because my > computer doesn't have Linux I am using Cygwin. The library > files I have > been given are of the ".so" format, which I can't use in > Windows. Can I > convert them to ".a" files? Is there any way at all to do this? > > I am currently using the following command line: > gcc -I/cygdrive/c/labs/CS2021/lab1/incl > -L/cygdrive/c/labs/CS2021/lab1/lib - > lm -lmbrot mandelbrot.c -o m.exe > (where mbrot refers to the shared object file "libmbrot.so" > in the ...../lib > folder) > > Thanks > Paul > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
