Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> Coatimundi wrote:
>> Thank you for bringing this up.  I forgot to mention (a sure
>> sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also
>> tried the P option.
>>   While this usually works, I found cases where it did not.
> [...]
>> Since I see nothing wrong with the source and I am short on
>> time, I am going to chalk this up to an unidentified mistake
>> on my part, unless I see it again and have time to build
>> bintools myself and step through the code in debug.
> 
> You've probably already ruled this out, but if you do see it
> again, you might want to verify that you're not mixing path
> separators (LIB.EXE will use either). I believe you must use
> only backslash-style separators if you want to interoperate
> with ar.


Why is that?  If 'LIB.EXE' will work with either and 'ar' as a Cygwin
app prefers '/', why would working with a .lib produced by 'LIB.EXE'
containing '\' separators make 'ar' work better?


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