questions about DLLs built with libtool - multiple output files...

[Ed Hartnett]

Howdy all!

I am very excited to use libtool to generate my library's DLL on
windows, with the same build tools that work on Unix. I am able to
remain in my Unix cocoon!

However, I don't quite understand the output. The following files are
created:

  -rw-rw-rw-   1 ed       root  1043050 Jun  1 07:44 libnetcdf.a
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 ed       root   360432 Jun  1 07:44 libnetcdf.dll.a
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 ed       root   632482 Jun  1 07:44 cygnetcdf-1.dll

But what are they? What is a .dll.a?

Which one do I give to the user as "the" dll for the library.

Also, I seem to recall reading that it was possible to generate dlls
which either did or did not depend on the cygwin dll being present on
the machine. True?

Thanks for any info!

Ed
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