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Re: MinGW link against an MS Windows import library


From: Bill Jones
Subject: Re: MinGW link against an MS Windows import library
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:42:08 -0400
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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.

wtj

Tim Van Holder wrote:
Bill Jones wrote:

So the basic question is how do I specify a static import library with a *.lib extension to be used by libtool for resolving the symbols provided by a non-libtool DLL when building a dependent DLL with libtool?


The trivial solution is of course to make a copy of the third-party .lib
file with a .a extension (the file format is identical anyway).
Alternatively, you may be able to create a fresh .a from the DLL using
'dllwrap --implib <dllname> -o <libname>', but it's likely that that
won't have all the necessary symbols.

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