Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:23:41 +0300 From: Paul Sokolovsky Reply-To: Paul Sokolovsky Message-ID: <16933.000330@is.lg.ua> To: mingw32@egroups.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: [ANN] a2dll: An utility (to help) to convert static library into Win32 DLL Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ReSent-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:57:03 -0400 (EDT) ReSent-From: Jeffrey Juliano ReSent-To: juliano@cs.unc.edu ReSent-Subject: [ANN] a2dll: An utility (to help) to convert static library into Win32 DLL ReSent-Message-ID: Hello gnu-win32, In the preparation for libtool assault, I wrote scripts which helps build DLLs from static libraries, by motives of my old howto (http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/static2dll_howto.txt). From doc: a2dll is shell script (see requirements) to automotize process of converting existing static libraries (produced by gnu-win32 tools, of course) into DLL. First of all, yes it's possible: if you have binary static distribution of some library (i.e. library itself and its headers), that's all you need to convert it to DLL and use in your programs. Read HOWTO for underlying magic. So, you may not waste time if you need DLL: just grab existing static distribution and convert. Also, you may use it to build Win32 DLL of your library. Also, until GNU libtool will allow seamless building of Win32 DLLs, you may build static lib (what libtool of course supports) and then convert it to DLL. http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/ -- Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=11135 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com