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To: "Robb Merrill" <robbmer AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Linking a .lib file
References: <F119tEnUyR53YPkz35Z0000825f AT hotmail DOT com>
From: Andrew Markebo <flognat AT flognat DOT myip DOT org>
Date: 07 Jun 2001 00:17:37 +0200
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/ "Robb Merrill" <robbmer AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
| Howdy.  I use the cygwin-b20 g++ compiler with Emacs, and I need to
| link in a .lib file.  When I try doing the compilation\linking command

I suppose the .lib-file is from MSVC++ or Borland? Unfortunetaly they
are extremely compiler dependent on the windows-platform, and I don't
think you can link them to your gcc. 

A possible way to do it could be converting the .lib to a dll, and
load that in your cygwin app.

        /Andy

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