Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:46:19 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Patrick Reuter cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Linux libraries on Cygwin (Was Re: gcc-2 works) In-Reply-To: <3DDD42DB.EA39CDE5@labri.fr> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Patrick Reuter wrote: > Hi, > > thanks a lot, gcc-2 works. Cool. > > Do you know how I could use the LAPACK library under cygwin/gcc-2 ? > I have some .so files and some .a files built on a red hat system. How > could I link them? > > Patrick Class, repeat after me: Cygwin is *not* Linux You cannot use Linux binaries under Cygwin. You cannot (most of the time) link with Linux libraries under Cygwin. Your only solution for pure Cygwin is to recompile the libraries on Cygwin. Or you may try your luck with something like LINE ( http://line.sourceforge.net/ ), but then be aware that you will be building *Linux* executables. This is quickly becoming an FAQ... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/