Re: Possible to create an X application not linked to cygwin1.dll?

I dont see other solutions than to link with a native XClient lib , there are some beside cygwin... (check for lestif maybe) Else you'd have to recompile the whole (or most) cygwin base packages nativly ( -mwindows) but I fear this is impossible. Good luck, If you find a solution, can you share i

gcc/ ld/ Mixing C++ objects from gcc and msvc : possible link ?

> > 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

req: using cygwin's gcc for creating static libs in msvc binary format (.a => .lib) # Re: static MSVC library?

Hi, I am opening this thread again , more than 5 years later : @ http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-09/msg00541.html [1] How comes is it impossible to write a STATIC lib using msvc's .LIB format ? while .DLL are possible ? Or at least to transcribe from gcc's .a format ? Anyway if it poss