X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Coatimundi Subject: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs? Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:59:58 -0700 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <4521CF4E.1010108@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <4521CF4E.1010108@cygwin.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Thanks. The crummy LIB for Windows tool says it only allows me to extract one object at a time. Yuck! Oh well, I wasn't going anywhere today, anyway... ;) Thanks. Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Coatimundi wrote: >> >> I need to break open a library I created with Visual Studio and insert >> some objects also compiled with Visual Studio. >> >> Will Cygwin's ar command work for this task? >> >> Alternatively, is there a Windows tool better suited to this? >> Maybe there's even something that ships with Visual Studio, but I >> wouldn't expect an answer to that question here. >> >> Thanks for indulging these newbie questions. I'm used to working with >> Linux and am leaning heavily on Cygwin as I start to do some Windows >> development. > > I believe you're looking for "LIB.EXE". Check out the MSDN and other > Windows development forums for details. > -- 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/