On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:12:58PM +0400, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > Hi, > > Under cygwin I have a Makefile.am that generates a 'libtool --mode=link' > line that has references to libraries in it like > "../libs/libxffm_calls.la". When gcc is invoked, this is translated into > "../libs/.libs/libxffm_calls.dll.a", i.e. libtool chooses the *static* > version of the library to link against.
That is correct. A .dll.a is a .a and therefore 'static' but it is also very small: it only contains stubs that will call the real functions in the .dll. The .dll.a is 100% equivalent to the .lib file that you'd be linking with under windows (and could link with using gcc (on cygwin/mingw32) except that libtool needs the extension .dll.a in order to recognize it. -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
