X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4523C3CA.9070006@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:23:06 -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: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F7B133D AT PAUMAILU03 DOT ags DOT agere DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F7B133D@PAUMAILU03.ags.agere.com> 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 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > Coatimundi wrote: >> Thank you for bringing this up. I forgot to mention (a sure >> sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also >> tried the P option. >> While this usually works, I found cases where it did not. > [...] >> Since I see nothing wrong with the source and I am short on >> time, I am going to chalk this up to an unidentified mistake >> on my part, unless I see it again and have time to build >> bintools myself and step through the code in debug. > > You've probably already ruled this out, but if you do see it > again, you might want to verify that you're not mixing path > separators (LIB.EXE will use either). I believe you must use > only backslash-style separators if you want to interoperate > with ar. Why is that? If 'LIB.EXE' will work with either and 'ar' as a Cygwin app prefers '/', why would working with a .lib produced by 'LIB.EXE' containing '\' separators make 'ar' work better? -- 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/