Re: MinGW link against an MS Windows import library

[Earnie Boyd]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bill Jones wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I have considered this but do not see it as a practical solution.  I do
> > not think that it should be the responsibility of every developer to
> > make a copy of a file simply because the extension is not what libtool
> > likes.  The .lib extension is a valid extension to Windows and it seems
> > more appropriate to have libtool conform to that spec under Windows
> > (MinGW/Cygwin in particular) as I am sure that this will occur
> > frequently.  Thanks for the response.
> >    
>
> Is the .lib format really the same as .a?  I suspect not since .a
> suggests that the format is Unix ar format.
>  
More or less the same.  There may be a few differences.  However, 
binutils have been able to read the MS produced .lib files for some 
years now.

Earnie.

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