Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40F39C234319D611BCCB00B0D0D1CB336092E9@ENETSLMAILI> From: Suhanthan Vanniyasingam To: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: Creating Static Libraries Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:46:37 +0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Larry, Thankyou for your reply. I'm asking can we create static libraries(LIBs) rethar than dynamic libraries(DLLs). I think the import library cannot be used alone as a static library. Is it? Thank You, Regards, Suhanthan, V. Suhanthan Vanniyasingam www.eRunway.com -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:54 PM To: Suhanthan Vanniyasingam; 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: Re: Creating Static Libraries At 02:47 AM 4/2/2002, Suhanthan Vanniyasingam wrote: > >Hi, > >I'm new to cygwin. I have found that we can create DLLs using >Cygwin. So What abouts *.lib s? > >Is there any relationship between *.a created with cygwin and *.lib? Yes. If the *.a is an import library (stubs referencing a DLL) rather than a static library, the format is the same as the *.lib. >Is it possible to use these *.a libraries with VC++? Generally, so long as you don't use dynamic memory (or if you do, you need to be very careful about freeing it in the same library as it's allocated - better to just stay away from it). Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/