RE: idea for mixed import/static libraries and linking with DLLs

["Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>]

> I just realized that libc.so on linux is just a linker script and
> that it is used to link both the shared and static parts of libc.
>
> So, in a similar vein, you could conceivably do something like this
> on cygwin:
>
> /* GNU ld script
>    Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
>    the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
> GROUP ( /bin/cygwin1.dll /usr/lib/libcygwin_static.a )
>
> I just renamed my libcygwin.a to libcygwin_static.a and copied
> the above to libcygwin.a.  It worked fine.
>
> So, if I wanted, I could just produce this script, generate only
> a libcygwin_static.a and everything would work ok without any
> changes to gcc's spec file.
>
This seems to me a good way to deal with hybrid libraries libke cygwin. Isn't it
?

Ralf




--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/