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 16:48:29 +0200 From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can .lib files be converted to .a files? Message-ID: <20030917144829.GB19674@linux_rln.harvest> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030917100436.027f3278@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030917100436.027f3278@127.0.0.1> 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 10:06:38AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > At 10:24 AM 9/17/2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak you wrote: > >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. > Or just use the library directly by listing it on the link line explicitly > vs the -lpcscal32 syntax for gcc libraries. I always forget about that option :) rlc -- we: The single most important word in the world. -- 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/