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: localhost.localdomain: ronald set sender to blytkerchan@users.sourceforge.net using -f Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:24:38 +0200 From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can .lib files be converted to .a files? Message-ID: <20030917142438.GA19674@linux_rln.harvest> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Disclaimer: I had nothing to do with it - I swear! X-loop: linux_rln.harvest On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:45:06AM -0400, craig grossbach wrote: > Does someone know of a way to convert a .lib file to it's > .a counterpart? I need to get pcscal32.lib to be > libpcscal32.a. Thank you. If pcscal32.lib was written in C and compiled by MSVC, just rename it. If it was not written in C, you're out of luck: there are ABI differences that you won't be able to get around without recompiling. If it was not compiled by MSVC (or something compatible), you'll have to use whatever your compiler offers to convert it - if anything. Otherwise, recompiling is the only thing you can do. HTH rlc -- Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/