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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 06:04:42 +0200
From: Alexander Mader <mader AT niles DOT de>
Organization: NILES Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH
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To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: P: nm and MS-Libs
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Hallo,

my original problem

Alexander Mader schrieb:
> in order to make MSNAME.a from a MSNAME.lib I try to extract the symbols
> the following way
> 
>         echo "EXPORTS" > msname.def;
> 
>         nm --demangle --defined-only MSNAME.lib \
>         |sed -n 's/^.* T //p' >> msname.def
> 
>         dlltool --dllname MSNAME.DLL --def msname.def \
> 
>         --output-lib libmsname.a
> 
> Unfortunately I get
> 
>         nm: MSNAME.DLL: File format not recognized

was solved. The lib was MSVC 6 and I did 

	lib /convert msname.lib

and got a lib to proceed with.

Alexander.
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Alexander Mader <mader AT niles DOT de>	Fon: +49-30-92797-556
NILES Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH

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