Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 12:17:05 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il. (Eli Zaretskii)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, jvinson AT jmd1ux DOT ecs DOT umass DOT edu
Subject: Re: including funny-named libraries

> I've got some libraries which don't follow the libXXX.a format that GCC
> expects for the -l linker option.  (They are *.lib).  Is there some way I
> can tell the linker to look for .lib files?  If I just tell the linker to
> add the filename, it complains with "File format not recognized" and stops.

Most probably, you won't be able to use those .lib files with DJGPP.  But
to learn more about this problem and how, if at all, it can be solved in
your case, read the DJGPP FAQ list, Chapter 17.  You can get the FAQ list
as faq100.zip from the same place you get DJGPP.