Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:37:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199905142237.SAA32066@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: Fieldhouse@logica.com CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: (Fieldhouse@logica.com) Subject: Re: Using gcc/egcs with MSVC .lib files References: > but ld can't build with .obj/.lib. Correct. First, ld has problems with some .objs produced by MS tools; this is an object-level problem so it won't matter if they're in a library or not. Second, MS's import libraries don't have the required hooks in them for ld to properly link them. Some objects may work fine; others may not. I've been working with a developer from Interix to fix the gnu tools to properly deal with these issues and various other cleanup items, but it's a *big* project. Some preliminary changes may be available soon, but it's not at the top of my current priority list. Note that one of the planned changes is to fix COMDAT sections, but it *may* break compatibility with old C++ libraries (we plan on supporting the broken way also if we can). -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com