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Subject: RE:  Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:48:55 -0400
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Coatimundi wrote:
> If paths are included in the archive (which is typical for
> libs created by Visual Studio), then ar may in some cases
> claim that members (displayed with 'ar t') do not exist
> when doing "ar x lib.a {object}" either by path/name.obj
> or just name.obj.

I think you need to use the -P option:

 $ ar t foobar.lib
 release\foo.obj
 release\bar.obj
 $ ar xv foobar.lib 'release\foo.obj'
 no entry release\foo.obj in archive
 $ ar xvP foobar.lib 'release\foo.obj'
 x - release\foo.obj

gsw

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