On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:32:39 +0600, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My concern here is that I don't want to maintain archive library readers > for billions of formats -- especially when I am unable to test the > readers on platforms that I do not have. > > Can somebody say how many linker archive library formats are in active > use under Windows? If a Windows archive library contains something that > is not an object file, will that file be ignored by the Windows linker? Under Windows now as far as i know there are 2 types of systems, that wide spreaded: 1. Ports of *nix utilites (GNU tools, tcc etc) which seems to use GNU archive library format (*.a extension). 2. Microsoft C/C++ tools. It's seems to use it's own extended version of COFF archive library format (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx). Yet there are borland C/C++ tools and digital mars tools with it's library format OMF. But imho it's now wide spreaded. -- See ya, Michelle Beloshitsky aka itanko _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
