X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4521CF4E.1010108@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:47:42 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Coatimundi wrote: > > I need to break open a library I created with Visual Studio and insert > some objects also compiled with Visual Studio. > > Will Cygwin's ar command work for this task? > > Alternatively, is there a Windows tool better suited to this? > Maybe there's even something that ships with Visual Studio, but I > wouldn't expect an answer to that question here. > > Thanks for indulging these newbie questions. I'm used to working with > Linux and am leaning heavily on Cygwin as I start to do some Windows > development. I believe you're looking for "LIB.EXE". Check out the MSDN and other Windows development forums for details. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/