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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:34:42 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: req: using cygwin's gcc for creating static libs in msvc binary format (.a => .lib) # Re: static MSVC library?
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
>It looks like changing a lib.a into a lib.lib might require only a rename!
>(But I remember reading that debug formats differ between gcc and VC.)

You're right.  The only difference is the debug info.  A cygwin .a file is
roughly the same thing as a MSVC .lib file.

But, of course, that was true back in 1999, too.

cgf

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