Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/05/24/22:45:15
--- Jim Roy <jim AT nga DOT com> wrote:
> Where does one go for newbie level information about building apps
> for Win/NT?
>
> From tidbits gleaned from the FAQ and the mail archive, I have managed to
> muddle my way thru building an example app that links to a 3rd party DLL.
>
> I never would have guessed ( and nothing in the docs from the 3rd party
> suggests ) that I would have to skip the development lib altogether,
> build a xxx.a file from the actual DLL ( which xxx.a file not being
> anything like a regular unix shared library ) and link with that.
>
> What I really need to get going on my REAL project is a good overview
> of the landscape. How do lib files, dll's, *.a files relate? What's
> the correct syntax for a .def file? Are some dll's _not_ "relocatable"?
>
> Something that explains the major pieces of the puzzle without going
> into too much detail, so I don't have to do a linear search of the details
> every time I get hung up.
Check the links in my .sig. Combine this with what you've already gleaned and
you should be set to go.
===
"Earnie Boyd" <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
CYGWIN RELATED HELP:
DOCUMENTATION: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/docs.html>
DLLHELP: <http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/>
ARCHIVE SEARCH: <http://www.delorie.com/archives/> OR
<http://www.eGroups.com/list/gnu-win32/>
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