Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

[Coatimundi <coatimundi at cox dot net>]

Thanks.  The crummy LIB for Windows tool says it only allows me to 
extract one object at a time.  Yuck!  Oh well, I wasn't going anywhere 
today, anyway... ;)

Thanks.


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Coatimundi wrote:
> > I need to break open a library I created with Visual Studio and insert 
> > some objects also compiled with Visual Studio.
> >
> > Will Cygwin's ar command work for this task?
> >
> > Alternatively, is there a Windows tool better suited to this?
> > Maybe there's even something that ships with Visual Studio, but I 
> > wouldn't expect an answer to that question here.
> >
> > Thanks for indulging these newbie questions.  I'm used to working with 
> > Linux and am leaning heavily on Cygwin as I start to do some Windows 
> > development.
>
> I believe you're looking for "LIB.EXE".  Check out the MSDN and other
> Windows development forums for details.


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