From: colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp (Colin Peters) Subject: RE: CYGNUS-WIN32 and Oracle OCI7.2 Library 25 Aug 1997 02:43:11 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BCB14B.9198B920.cygnus.gnu-win32@gbird0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'Minh Le Cong'" Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Minh Le Cong[SMTP:Minh.Le_Cong@spacebel.be] wrote: >As you may know, Personal Oracle 7.2 for NT include an API called OCI (Oracle Call Interface). >This is used to access the Oracle database. >This is a C API . It consists of some .h files , a DLL (ociw32.dll) and OCIw32.lib > >The ociw32.lib is intended for MSVC users. > >So my question is that how can I link my program with OCI library if I use CYGNUS-WIN32 ? > how gcc and ld deal with .LIB libary files ( not .a library file)? In your case I think it might be easier to build a .a file using dlltool and a .def file. Some time ago Valery Fine (Valeri.Faine@cern.ch) posted a program called dumpexts, based on pedump, that creates a .def file from a .dll. Run this on ociw32.dll and then run dlltool on the resulting .def file to make a libociw32.a. Then you should be able to build your programs using -lociw32 on your link line. This all assumes that the library file contains only import records, not extra statically linked functions. From the looks of it, it seems like a good bet in this case. I can send you the source file dumpexts.c if you wish. Colin. -- Colin Peters - Saga Univ. Dept. of Information Science -- colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp - finger for PGP public key -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".