> I just realized that libc.so on linux is just a linker script and > that it is used to link both the shared and static parts of libc. > > So, in a similar vein, you could conceivably do something like this > on cygwin: > > /* GNU ld script > Use the shared library, but some functions are only in > the static library, so try that secondarily. */ > GROUP ( /bin/cygwin1.dll /usr/lib/libcygwin_static.a ) > > I just renamed my libcygwin.a to libcygwin_static.a and copied > the above to libcygwin.a. It worked fine. > > So, if I wanted, I could just produce this script, generate only > a libcygwin_static.a and everything would work ok without any > changes to gcc's spec file. > This seems to me a good way to deal with hybrid libraries libke cygwin. Isn't it ?
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