X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4547D9A6.8050405@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:17:58 -0500 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: .so and .dll.a files References: <86dd06af0610311408v627c143bj296da7d665a9ca67 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <86dd06af0610311408v627c143bj296da7d665a9ca67@mail.gmail.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 Gerardo Segura wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to use libflv in cygwin, so I build de library. The > produced files are: > /usr/lib/libflv.so > /usr/lib/libflv.so.0 > > when I tried to build an example command ld can't found the library it > says: > ld: cannot find -lflv > > using filemon or strace I see the files are been looking for are either: > libflv.dll.a or > flv.dll.a > > so my question is how to convert from .so files to .dll.a > or how can I use directly the .so files. If you built this as a DLL and just named it "libflv.so", rename it to "libflv.dll". Then make sure the linker can find the file. If you instead copied these files from some *NIX system, you'll need to rebuild from source under Cygwin into a static library ("libflv.a") or a DLL ("cygflv.dll" - the preferred prefix for Cygwin DLLs is "cyg") with it's companion import library ("libflv.dll.a"). -- 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/