Re: DLL creation and static libs

[Charles Wilson]

On 11/3/2010 12:23 PM, Matěj  Týč wrote:
> On 2 November 2010 13:26, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 11/2/2010 2:14 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> ...
>> the problem is there are TWO different libuuid's.  There's the one that
>> is part of the win32 api, and simply contains a number of static objects
>> that represent UUIDs of elements of the Windows OS. [1] Then, there's
>> the unix-derived one that provides routines for *generating* new UUIDs. [2]
> 
> I thought of the nm tool. It could be used to identify which library
> is which, although AFAIK, it can't be used to generally identify
> libraries that contain data only. Is that correct?

Well, as long as we're special casing, we can look for a *specific*
public read-only data item:

        nm -B libuuid.a | grep ' R _IID_IUnknown'

that should only appear in the w32api version, and not in the unixy one.

--
Chuck