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Serethos
Serethos@web.de
Wed Jun 7 22:35:00 GMT 2006
Thx for your answer. But I called the guys from the SWIG mailing list
and they stated that
my problem can not be solved with SWIG. It would only be useful if I
wished to use a
e.g. c-program for another language.
Any other ideas?
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Maurice HÃŒllein wrote:
>> I'm currently developing a c++ plugin for a windows simulator
>> environment, which accepts plugins in form of a dll. For doing so my
>> dll needs to include a library of this simulator program which is
>> only supported
>> in ".a" format. I solved this problem by cross compiling the dll from
>> cygwin for the windows platform.
>>
>> But now there is another problem. My .dll-project needs to use
>> external libraries which are only supported
>> in windows .lib format. So theres the issue that my VC Express
>> compiler can not use the .a library and the
>> cross compiler can not handle the .lib. I already read that even if
>> both, the .a and .lib, are static libraries there are
>> incompatibilities because of the used compiler.
>> I would prefer to disclaim the bypass of using cygwin and a cross
>> compiler at all. So is there any way of
>> converting the .a library in a native windows .lib?
>
>
> The incompatibilities you refer to are the result of differences in
> different
> "vendors" C++ formats, not in the differences between library formats.
> Actually a static .a and .lib have the same format. But the former
> restriction overshadows the latter non-issue. You'll need to wrap your
> library in C-callable interfaces if you really want to get this to work.
> Perhaps the very recently update SWIG library will be helpful for you?
>
>
>
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