Using Cygwin compiled libs in Visual Studio

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Olumide wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible or recommended to use a Cygwin compiled lib file or dll 
> in Visual studio? The problem is that although I'm doing my development 
> in Visual Studio, a number of the sources I intend to use have Cygwin 
> makefiles but no Visual studio projects.

See:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.msvs-mingw>
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.msvcrt-and-cygwin>

You're probably more interested in the MinGW project <mingw.org>.  It
uses MS's CRT, which will likely make your intended melding easier.

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