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[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Maurice HÃŒllein wrote:
> I'm currently developing a c++ plugin for a windows simulator environment, which accepts plugins in form 
> of a dll. For doing so my dll needs to include a library of this simulator program which is only supported
> in ".a" format. I solved this problem by cross compiling the dll from cygwin for the windows platform.
> 
> But now there is another problem. My .dll-project needs to use external libraries which are only supported
> in windows .lib format. So theres the issue that my VC Express compiler can not use the .a library and the
> cross compiler can not handle the .lib. I already read that even if both, the .a and .lib, are static libraries 
> there are incompatibilities because of the used compiler. 
> 
> I would prefer to disclaim the bypass of using cygwin and a cross compiler at all. So is there any way of
> converting the .a library in a native windows .lib?


The incompatibilities you refer to are the result of differences in different
"vendors" C++ formats, not in the differences between library formats.
Actually a static .a and .lib have the same format.  But the former
restriction overshadows the latter non-issue.  You'll need to wrap your
library in C-callable interfaces if you really want to get this to work.
Perhaps the very recently update SWIG library will be helpful for you?



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