DirectX8/DirectInput + cygwin

[Pavel Tsekov]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 
>>Dylan Cuthbert wrote:
>>
>>>I am linking directly with the .lib files supplied by Microsoft, and
>>>all the Directx8 GUID references seem to link fine so does anybody have
>>>any idea what the problem might be?
>>>
>>Why ?  Link against those in /usr/lib.  gcc doesn't understand the MS
>>export libraries.
>>
> 
> Actually, gcc/ld should understand non-c++ import libraries.


Is this a new feature or I was missing something all the time ?
What's the point of tools which build .a files from dlls ?


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