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From:	"Fieldhouse, Dirk" <Fieldhouse AT logica DOT com>
To:	"'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Using gcc/egcs with MSVC .lib files
Date:	Fri, 14 May 1999 23:08:52 +0100
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Can anyone confirm what the current position is?

As I understand, these options are possible

-	use link to build gcc object files against xxx.lib

-	make a wrapper, build the xxx.lib into xxx.dll, and use dlltool to
make the necessary libxxx.a for gcc

but (maybe not true any longer?) ld can't build with .obj/.lib.

However I'm proposing to use a 3rd party tool that puts my compiled code
into a library before linking. Can I extract all the .obj from the xxx.lib
and store them into libxxx.a directly? Or can I store the gcc objects into a
.lib with MS lib.exe for building with link.exe? 

Thanks for any enlightenment.

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