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RE: idea for mixed import/static libraries and linking with DLLs
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:04:16 +0100
- Subject: RE: idea for mixed import/static libraries and linking with DLLs
> I just realized that libc.so on linux is just a linker script and
> that it is used to link both the shared and static parts of libc.
>
> So, in a similar vein, you could conceivably do something like this
> on cygwin:
>
> /* GNU ld script
> Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
> the static library, so try that secondarily. */
> GROUP ( /bin/cygwin1.dll /usr/lib/libcygwin_static.a )
>
> I just renamed my libcygwin.a to libcygwin_static.a and copied
> the above to libcygwin.a. It worked fine.
>
> So, if I wanted, I could just produce this script, generate only
> a libcygwin_static.a and everything would work ok without any
> changes to gcc's spec file.
>
This seems to me a good way to deal with hybrid libraries libke cygwin. Isn't it
?
Ralf
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