From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Subject: Re: Link Libs, other compilers
To: rschader AT grfn DOT ORG (Robert Schader)
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 10:07:42 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)


Bob Schader (rschader AT freenet DOT grfn DOT org) writes:
> 
> Does anyone out there know if it is possible to translate *.lib files 
> from other compilers to djgpp's lib*.a format? The Amiga version of Gcc 
> had a utility that was called hunktogcc that translated standard Amiga 
> format object libraries to Gcc's format. My interest in doing this is to 
> be able to compile programs (1) for MSWindows and (2) for Autocad's ADS. 
> Autocad's ADS comes with link libraries for Microsoft C, Turbo C, Watcom 
> C and Zortech C. As a quick compatibility check, I ran 'nm -s' on these 
> libs and got an unrecogized format message. Any suggestions would be 
> appreciated. Thanx,
> 

If you really need all this, I would advice spending $199 for
Watcom C/C++ 10.0a. With this compiler you can compile for
MS-Windows and Autocad's ADS, and you have the libs already too.

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)