Sender: arnaiz AT redvax1 DOT dgsca DOT unam DOT mx
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 06:45:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Jorge Fernandez Arnaiz <arnaiz AT redvax1 DOT dgsca DOT unam DOT mx>
Subject: Re: Libraries
To: Francesc Guasch-Ortiz <frankie AT si DOT upc DOT es>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Hi...

On Thu, 7 Jul 1994, Francesc Guasch-Ortiz wrote:
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> 
> so the gnu linker gets to the file but it doesn't like the format and tells me
> not a rel format library !. I guess that the rename i did was almost like
> rename COFFs to EXEs. I've been looking at the info if there is some kind of
> way to translate (not just rename LIBs) but i didnt find it.
> 
No, you can't only rename the library to *.a because the internal functions
in it, are still in .OBJ format.

> 	Please, if there is someone who knows how to do it or where in the
> info can i find how, or what book should I buy, or wanna cheer me up I will
> appreciate your help.
> 
> 
The only way to get *.a libraries, is to recompile them in coff format
and for that you need the source files, sorry :-(

> 	Thank you
> 
> 		Francesc Guasch Ortiz
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> Barcelona Computer Science University
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