Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/26/00:47:39
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 09:21 AM 5/25/2005, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 25 May 2005, Alireza Ghasemi wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I want to use some cygwin .a libraries with other environments(like
> >> VC++) as static .lib files.is this possible?
> >
> >Yes.
>
> Or no. ;-)
Eh? Your response below points to a "yes", AFAICS...
> >> Can I convert .a files to windows static libraries?
> >
> >Yes.
>
> Or no. ;-)
Ditto.
> >> If possible,what program do I need?
> >
> >This was discussed before, though I'm not sure what the correct search
> >terms would be. I believe you can simply use "mv libblah.a
> >libblah.lib". <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC103> might help,
> >too.
> > Igor
>
> Actually, this is the answer to the opposite question. The answer to
> that is as the FAQ states.
Umm, right. That's why I said "might help" rather than point the OP
directly to it... :-)
> Using Cygwin .a's with VC++ isn't as easy, since they are going to pull
> in 'cygwin1.dll' and this cannot currently be initialized properly by
> non-cygwin programs. Of course, this subject has also be discussed in
> the email archives. If interested, Alastair Growcott suggested a
> "workaround". If you're interested in it, see
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00274.html>.
Ah, yes, this is exactly the message I was thinking of (though I didn't
recall it being this complicated). Thanks for including a pointer to it.
BTW, we're talking about linking C here, not C++. The name mangling
differences will make C++ linking much more painful, IIUC.
FWIW, someone else has mentioned working on the DLL initialization code
quite recently -- he might benefit from this pointer as well.
Igor
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