Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 13:19:13 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Pfannenschmid <peterp AT physik DOT uni-augsburg DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Library conversion Borland-GNU
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On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Peter Pfannenschmid wrote:

> after playing for quite a while with the command line tools which are
> coming with Borland's BCC 5.0, and after crawling through the
> documentation of the GNU C++ compiler and its related tools, I am
> wondering if there is a way to convert libraries from the Borland
> format to the GNU format; that means .LIB -> .a. It would also be
> sufficient if I could'nt do this with libraries, but with the object
> files.

The short answer is NO.  To read the detailed answer, download the DJGPP 
FAQ list (v2/faq210b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP) and read 
sections 17.5 and 17.6 there.

In general, object files from different compilers are incompatible.  In 
C++ it is even more so, since different compilers mangle the names of the 
functions differently.