[Mingw-users] [mingw - Unix2Windows2Unix] library name conventions an linker problem

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By: knackeback

I'm writing a m4 macro for a (C++)library
to support the GNU-Build-tools.
The macro tries to compile and link a small
code snippet via AC_CHECK_LIB.
Because I can not sure about the name of
the library I try several names in a for loop.
All works fine with *ix, the correct library name
is discovered in this way.
Now I tried my generated configure script under 
MinGW and oh my god it failed because the library
extensions are different.
Let say I have my library named libmyy.a under
*ix and my linker option -lmyy works fine,
the library built for MinGW is now called 
libmyy.lib and the -lmyy does not work.
When I rename the lib to libmyy.a all is fine again. But that can not be the
solution.
How to write the macro in such a way, that it is working under MinGW too ?



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