This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: req: using cygwin's gcc for creating static libs in msvc binary format (.a => .lib) # Re: static MSVC library?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:34:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: req: using cygwin's gcc for creating static libs in msvc binary format (.a => .lib) # Re: static MSVC library?
- References: <20050309173223.505222101B7@warserver.warande.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
>It looks like changing a lib.a into a lib.lib might require only a rename!
>(But I remember reading that debug formats differ between gcc and VC.)
You're right. The only difference is the debug info. A cygwin .a file is
roughly the same thing as a MSVC .lib file.
But, of course, that was true back in 1999, too.
cgf
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/