Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:34:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: req: using cygwin's gcc for creating static libs in msvc binary format (.a => .lib) # Re: static MSVC library? Message-ID: <20050309173442.GB16830@gully.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050309173223 DOT 505222101B7 AT warserver DOT warande DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050309173223.505222101B7@warserver.warande.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: >It looks like changing a lib.a into a lib.lib might require only a rename! >(But I remember reading that debug formats differ between gcc and VC.) You're right. The only difference is the debug info. A cygwin .a file is roughly the same thing as a MSVC .lib file. But, of course, that was true back in 1999, too. cgf -- 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/