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Re: How to produce target *.lib? [message #3039 is a reply to message #3038]

Thu, 04 May 2006 18:55

mirek
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epigone wrote on Thu, 04 May 2006 12:45

The details requested by fudadmin:
I've downloaded the bundle UPP+MinGW ver. 602 and installed it, since I'm trying to (slowly...) move away from Borland Builder.
First step, to me, would be to have re-built the *.lib files I was using previously with the other compiler and manage them like any other *.a files in the distribution.
I could not find the way to do that from inside TheIDE.
Since my knowledge on gcc and bintools usage are limited, I would prefer to do that from inside IDE (i.e. the way to do the things I got used with, plus laziness ...).
So, how do I use TheIDE and MinGW to build my *.a files ?

Actually, why do you need to make .a files? TheIDE way is to use packages - static libraries are just implementation detail...

OTOH, if you really desire to have .a, you can use this implementation detail to your advantage - TheIDE builds .a when producing release version. Simply create some empty main package, perform the build and gather them Smile

Mirek

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