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MinGW libraries [message #17357]

Sat, 06 October 2007 12:08

John
Messages: 10
Registered: August 2007

Junior Member

Hi,

I am using Eclipse C++ on Windows with MinGW for linkage. Can you tell
me why the libraries used by MinGW (in the \MinGW\lib directory) have
a .a extension, wich is unix library extension? I thought that MinGW
would use .lib libraries.

Thank you.

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Re: MinGW libraries [message #17360 is a reply to message #17357 ]

Sat, 06 October 2007 12:25

red floyd
Messages: 96
Registered: August 2007

Member

John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Eclipse C++ on Windows with MinGW for linkage. Can you tell
> me why the libraries used by MinGW (in the \MinGW\lib directory) have
> a .a extension, wich is unix library extension? I thought that MinGW
> would use .lib libraries.
>
> Thank you.
>
No, but you could probably find out in either gnu.g++.help or an Eclipse
newsgroup or mailing list.

What was your C++ language question?

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Re: MinGW libraries [message #17364 is a reply to message #17357 ]

Sat, 06 October 2007 13:24

Erik-wikstrom
Messages: 412
Registered: July 2007

Senior Member

On 2007-10-06 18:08, John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Eclipse C++ on Windows with MinGW for linkage. Can you tell
> me why the libraries used by MinGW (in the \MinGW\lib directory) have
> a .a extension, wich is unix library extension? I thought that MinGW
> would use .lib libraries.

Because MinGW is trying hard to be UNIX running on tom of windows. For
further questions about MinGW please use a MinGW group/mailing list.

--
Erik Wikström

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