X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Reveived: from web.de by fmmailgate09.web.de (Postfix) with SMTP id BCFA110A757 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:21:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:21:36 +0200 Message-Id: <605186411@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Maurice_H=FCllein?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: C++ compiling => Converting .a into .lib? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 I am really sorry for sending this mail at first without a header! I'm currently developing a c++ plugin for a windows simulator environment, which accepts plugins in form of a dll. For doing so my dll needs to include a library of this simulator program which is only supported in ".a" format. I solved this problem by cross compiling the dll from cygwin for the windows platform. But now there is another problem. My .dll-project needs to use external libraries which are only supported in windows .lib format. So theres the issue that my VC Express compiler can not use the .a library and the cross compiler can not handle the .lib. I already read that even if both, the .a and .lib, are static libraries there are incompatibilities because of the used compiler. I would prefer to disclaim the bypass of using cygwin and a cross compiler at all. So is there any way of converting the .a library in a native windows .lib? _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000071 -- 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/