On Wed, 25 May 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > At 09:21 AM 5/25/2005, you wrote: > >On Wed, 25 May 2005, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> I want to use some cygwin .a libraries with other environments(like > >> VC++) as static .lib files.is this possible? > > > >Yes. > > Or no. ;-)
Eh? Your response below points to a "yes", AFAICS... > >> Can I convert .a files to windows static libraries? > > > >Yes. > > Or no. ;-) Ditto. > >> If possible,what program do I need? > > > >This was discussed before, though I'm not sure what the correct search > >terms would be. I believe you can simply use "mv libblah.a > >libblah.lib". <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC103> might help, > >too. > > Igor > > Actually, this is the answer to the opposite question. The answer to > that is as the FAQ states. Umm, right. That's why I said "might help" rather than point the OP directly to it... :-) > Using Cygwin .a's with VC++ isn't as easy, since they are going to pull > in 'cygwin1.dll' and this cannot currently be initialized properly by > non-cygwin programs. Of course, this subject has also be discussed in > the email archives. If interested, Alastair Growcott suggested a > "workaround". If you're interested in it, see > <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00274.html>. Ah, yes, this is exactly the message I was thinking of (though I didn't recall it being this complicated). Thanks for including a pointer to it. BTW, we're talking about linking C here, not C++. The name mangling differences will make C++ linking much more painful, IIUC. FWIW, someone else has mentioned working on the DLL initialization code quite recently -- he might benefit from this pointer as well. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
