[Mingw-users] Linking with version.dll (libversion.a) fails

[Polley C. W <PolleyChristopherW@JohnDeere.com>]

Hi, all:

I'm having a curious problem linking with version.dll:

linking (LDFLAGS=-Wall -mwindows -lversion -mno-cygwin -Wl,--verbose) fails
with:
>winmain.o(.text+0xd0):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`GetFileVersionInfoSizeA@8'
>winmain.o(.text+0x11b):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`GetFileVersionInfoA@16'
>winmain.o(.text+0x16f):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`VerQueryValueA@16'
>winmain.o(.text+0x226):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`VerQueryValueA@16'
>winmain.o(.text+0x278):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`VerQueryValueA@16'
>winmain.o(.text+0x2d6):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`VerQueryValueA@16'
>winmain.o(.text+0xf8b):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`GetFileVersionInfoSizeA@8'
>winmain.o(.text+0xfe2):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`GetFileVersionInfoA@16'
>winmain.o(.text+0x1040):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`VerQueryValueA@16'
>winmain.o(.text+0x10d5):winmain.c: undefined reference to
`VerQueryValueA@16'

but win32api/libversion.a is found
>attempt to open /usr/lib/w32api/libversion.a succeeded

and contains the symbols in question:
(trimmed output of nm -g /usr/lib/w32api/libversion.a)
>ds00010.o:
>00000000 T _VerQueryValueA@16
>ds00001.o:
>00000000 T _GetFileVersionInfoSizeA@8
>ds00000.o:
>00000000 T _GetFileVersionInfoA@16

(trimmed output of nm -u winmain.o)
>_GetFileVersionInfoA@16
>_GetFileVersionInfoSizeA@8
>_VerQueryValueA@16

I'm using a very recent install of cygwin, with the exception that I'm using
cygwin-1.3.2-1 and bash-2.05-8 (due to the null handle dup problem mentioned
in my posts to the cygwin ml last week)

If I remove the sections of code in winmain.c that refer to these functions,
the code compiles and runs (but doesn't pull the version info out of the
resources, of course)

Any ideas why this won't link?

Warm Regards,
Chris