importlibraries names

2003-08-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo, the importlibraries are named libxyz.dll.a (or the symlinks to the actual libraries are). This is not a problem for the linker which will pick them up when -lxyz is specified. But I have some configuration scripts which are looking for libX11.a in the libdir which is pretty usual. Would

Re: importlibraries names

2003-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:44:02PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo, the importlibraries are named libxyz.dll.a (or the symlinks to the actual libraries are). This is not a problem for the linker which will pick them up when -lxyz is specified. But I have some configuration scripts

Re: importlibraries names

2003-08-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Corinna, Would it be a problem to create the symlinks to be libxyz.a instead of libxyz.dll.a in future releases or use the same names of the importlibraries as it was before, without version included? No. There are two types of import libs: libfoo.dll.a which results in linking