Hi,
I'm a newbie on cygwin platform and I'm not sure to understand the
semantic of lib files
It seems that for a library "foo", several files are created :
* cygfoo.dll => this is the "true" lib. This file contains the real
code of the lib : It is the equivalent of the "foo.dll" in MS
terminology. Is this correct ?
* libfoo.a => this is the static lib (contains a set of object file
(*.o)) : It is the equivalent of the "foo.lib" in MS terminology. Is
this correct ?
* libfoo.dll.a => this is the import static lib (contains a set of
object file (*.o) without code, only functions/var names ... ?) : It is
the equivalent of the import lib "foo.lib" in MS terminology. Is this
correct ?
* libfoo.la => this is a general description text file created by
libtool : There is no equivalent MS file in MS terminology. Is this
correct ?
cygfoo.dll must be in .../bin directory
libfoo.* must be in .../lib directory
In linux :
.../lib/libfoo.so is the equivalent of .../bin/cygfoo.dll
.../lib/libfoo.a is the equivalent of .../lib/libfoo.a
and there are no equivalent for libfoo.dll.a and libfoo.la in linux ?
when gcc links binaries, it uses only
.o files
.a files
.dll.a files
libfoo.la is a helper file only uses by libtool (not handled by gcc) :
is that correct ?
Is that correct or I misunderstand the role of those files
Thanks in advance
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