From: "Martin Czamai" <M DOT Czamai AT peak-system DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Building a library using "ar" does not work
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:35:29 +0200
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Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
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> Martin Czamai <M DOT Czamai AT peak-system DOT com> wrote:
> : can anybody tell me why building a library using the command "ar rs
MyLib.a
> : MyObj1.obj MyObj2.obj ..." returns the message like
"c:/djgpp/bin/ar.exe:
> : MyLib.a: No such file or directory (ENOENT)"?? Where can I find
> : documentation about "ar" (description of its parameters)? I just took a
look
> : at the allegro-makefile, where ar works fine.
>
> It seems that "ar r" wants the archive to exist. For information about
> ar you look up it's texinfo documentation: "info ar".
>
>
> Right,
>
> MartinS

I tried it under Win98SE and WinNT4 with the result, that it worked under
Win98SE but NOT under WinNT4 using e. g. a DOS box. Any idea why??

regards
Martin