.so and .dll.a files

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Gerardo Segura wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to use libflv in cygwin, so I build de library. The
> produced files are:
> /usr/lib/libflv.so
> /usr/lib/libflv.so.0
> 
> when I tried to build an example command ld can't found the library it 
> says:
> ld:   cannot find -lflv
> 
> using filemon or strace I see the files are been looking for are either:
> libflv.dll.a  or
> flv.dll.a
> 
> so my question is how to convert from .so files to .dll.a
> or how can I use directly the .so files.


If you built this as a DLL and just named it "libflv.so", rename it to
"libflv.dll".  Then make sure the linker can find the file.  If you
instead copied these files from some *NIX system, you'll need to rebuild
from source under Cygwin into a static library ("libflv.a") or a DLL
("cygflv.dll" - the preferred prefix for Cygwin DLLs is "cyg") with it's
companion import library ("libflv.dll.a").

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