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Date:	Mon, 06 May 2002 14:09:40 -0400
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From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: How to create LIB from DLL
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At 02:02 PM 5/6/2002, you wrote:
>On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:47:20PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >You bet.  I like the details.  It helps guide me in my responses,
> >though I have to admit these details confuse me.  So you have your app
> >already built against Cygwin?  Why do you need to do it again then?
> >And why can't you do it the way it was done?  I have a better idea of
> >what you're trying to do but I'm not sure I really understand why you
> >have the problem you do.  Anyway, it sounds to me like you want to
> >debug into Cygwin to understand this difference.  That would mean that
> >you need more than just an import library.  You need a debug version of
> >Cygwin.  You'd have to build that.  Also sounds to me like you need to
> >figure out what Cygwin does so you can emulate it.  The quickest way to
> >that is to look at the source.  Of course, that probably gets a little
> >sticky since it's not quite proper to effectively copy Cygwin source.
> >
> >OK, I should stop speculating on your issues! ;-)
>
>Can I suggest that since we're discussing ways of getting rid of the
>cygwin DLL this is probably not really on-topic here?  This is supposed
>to be a list which discusses how to use cygwin not how to not use
>cygwin.



Yep.  Good point.



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