Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/14/13:07:21
On 14 February 2006 17:35, Tischler, Ron wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:01 PM
> "Tischler, Ron" wrote:
>
>> I am trying to use Cygwin to write a PC application that calls the
>> function named FtpCommand. Microsoft documentation that I found
>> online says that there is a header named wininet.h and a library named
>> wininet.lib to link in. On my PC, under the Cygwin stuff, I see
>> wininet.h, but not wininet.lib.
> Cygwin does not use .lib files, and the naming of libraries is that of
> unix. So you use -lfoo to link with libfoo.a (or sometimes
> libfoo.dll.a) which is the import library for the DLL.
> Thanks for your reply, but the makefiles that I'm using do use .lib
> files, and things are following PC rather than unix conventions, and I
> am already getting wininet.lib, because other stuff that is working
> comes from there.
"My makefiles are using the wrong input files"
"Well, get them to use the correct input files"
"But I don't want to change them. Tell me how to use the wrong files
instead."
<smacks self across forehead with large wet fish in sheer despair>
cheers,
DaveK
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