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Re: cygwin, g++ and boost? Do I need dll.a?
- From: Danny Smith <dannysmith at clear dot net dot nz>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:25:44 +1300
- Subject: Re: cygwin, g++ and boost? Do I need dll.a?
At http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00158.html
Charles Wilson said:
> With -static, -lxxx only looks for:
>
> libxxx.a
> xxx
>
>
> Note that, oddly, in -static mode a MS-style library name "xxx.lib"
> will be ignored, while in (normal) mode it will be used if found (and
> the other patterns ahead of it are not found). Just an odd little
quirk.
That's not right. In -static mode, the binutils/ld/emultempl/pe.em
function: gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_find_potential_libraries will (failing
to find lib*.a) find *.lib as static archives
To test, just rename libkernel32.a to kernel32.lib (import libs are just
special static archives) and build a simple 'hello_world.c' testcase
with
-static
Danny
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