Re: linking with extern DLLs under Cygwin

[Brian Dessent]

Peter Rosin wrote:

> It is not terribly hard to create those import libraries semi-
> manually. dlltool can do most of the work. Is that not an
> option for you?

That or simply a symlink libfoo.dll.a -> ../bin/cygfoo-n.dll.

In the official Cygwin distro all devel packages contain import libs, so
I'd consider this a bug in the ICU package if it can't generate one. 
One can be created as a side effect of linking the DLL simply by adding
-Wl,-out-implib,libfoo.dll.a.

Brian