On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:37:36PM +0100, RzR www.rzr.online.fr wrote: >> > A foo.lib can be used interchangeably with a libfoo.a file. Except >Yea I did not realize that was just a convention (I was also confused >on cygwin : .so vs .dll) > >> > for the well-documented and frequently repeated problems with C++ >> > name mangling, and the even more repeated problems with mixing >> > the cygwin and msvcrt runtime libraries, there should be no problems >> > with using a .lib file on the gcc command line or a .a file on the >> > "cl" command line. >> == >> You cannot intermix non-trivial C++ (and, in many cases, even C) object >> files between compilers. >> == >> >> I'm not saying that it can't be done in some specialized circumstances, >... if it is not impossible, let's do it :)
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