Re: win32 mingw, linking with a mix of static and dynamic libraries

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Wesley,

* Wesley Leggette wrote on Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:28:33AM CEST:
> 
> I'm trying to link to a mix of both dll and .a files with a mingw cross 
> compiler, but only linking to a dll works. gcc tells me that -lpqxx (for 
> example) does not exist when only libpqxx.a is in the lib path.

Are you creating a program or another library?  Could you post the
  ./libtool --mode=link
line and its output?

(There is an open bug which may or may not relate to your bug report.)

Is this GNU/Linux -> MinGW?  The Debian cross package?

> Also, it's my understanding that libfoo.dll.a is for most packages the 
> name of the import library.

Yes.

> By linking to this, does my new executable 
> then depend on libfoo.dll as expected?

Yes, I think this should be true.

Cheers,
Ralf