Creating Static Libraries

Tue Apr 2 07:55:00 GMT 2002

At 02:47 AM 4/2/2002, Suhanthan Vanniyasingam wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I'm new to cygwin. I have found that we can create DLLs using 
>Cygwin. So What abouts *.lib s? 
>>Is there any relationship between *.a created with cygwin and *.lib? 

Yes. If the *.a is an import library (stubs referencing a DLL) rather than
a static library, the format is the same as the *.lib.
>Is it possible to use these *.a libraries with VC++?

Generally, so long as you don't use dynamic memory (or if you do, you need to
be very careful about freeing it in the same library as it's allocated - 
better to just stay away from it).
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