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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:39:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Patrick Reuter <preuter AT uni-hohenheim DOT de>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Creating libraries
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Patrick Reuter wrote:

> Hi, and thanks already for the help from yesterday,
> 
> Unfortunately I still have a problem compiling libraries under Windows
> using cygwin with gcc.
> 
> I don't want (or do I have to ?) create .dll files but .lib libraries.

Okay, in  the case of static libraries, cygwin is unix-like: statlibs end
in .a and are traditional archives (built using 'ar [options] name
objs....'

To link, you use -L$(PATH) -lname, where the library is called:
 lib{name}.a

(actually, there is a complicated precedence order having to do with dll
import libs, static libs, and 'direct-to-dll' linking, but we won't get
into that here)

--Chuck



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