From: AndrewJ Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Did someone write LIBRARY in DJGPP ? Message-ID: References: <8q8ld8$iik$1 AT info DOT cyf-kr DOT edu DOT pl> <44thsskq6f3ri81hn5un4anb3ldtovamg3 AT 4ax DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:57:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.42.120.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT home DOT net X-Trace: news3.rdc1.on.home.com 969501470 24.42.120.18 (Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:57:50 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:57:50 PDT Organization: Excite AT Home - The Leader in Broadband To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:34:18 GMT, Damian Yerrick wrote: >On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:20:06 GMT, AndrewJ > wrote: > >>Also, I recommend against using the name 'lib' for your library. >>It may create conflicts in the future. > >Suggested name for a library: lib(something).a >where (something) is one to five alphanumeric characters. >Examples: > lib name link command > liballeg.a -lalleg > libc.a -lc > >Of course, (something) may be longer than five characters, but it >may cause problems when somebody using DOS builds your library. >(libstdcxx anyone?) You're no fun, Damian. I was hoping to encourage the OP to actually read some of the info pages. :) -- AndrewJ