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> But, that doesn't mean you couldn't use the MSVC utilities to create an
> import library named CYGWIN.LIB if you want to go to the trouble and
> there will be problems giving you trouble I would assume.  Note there
> are static items also in libcygwin.a and those static items will need to
> exist in your CYGWIN.LIB.

Except that cygwin1.dll knows the difference between being invoked by
an import library and being invoked by LoadLibrary, and initializes
itself differently for each.  I wouldn't expect it to work correctly
if you used a plain import library without all the other
initialization stuff that the default libcygwin.a provides.

Someone would have to review it in depth to know if it would work at
all, and commit to keeping it working.

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