Re: [Dev-C++] making .a files

[Abhijit S. <mu...@gm...>]

.a files are library files. To make them under MingW32, you do this:

g++ -c -o foo.o foo.cpp
ar -r libfoo.a foo.o

Copy libfoo.a to your 'lib' directory, and when compiling stuff, you can use
it as a library, as in

g++ -o boo.exe boo.cpp -lfoo

Translate these commands into appropriate Dev-C++ settings (if possible)...
for the 'ar' bit, you'll have to use a script.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos García del Monte" <cg...@wo...>
To: "dev-cpp-users-list" <dev...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] making .a files


There is no option in file -> new project to make only the .a file, at
least in Dev-C++ 4. There are only windows, console, winmain, dll and
empty.
But I tried to open a new DLL and compile it wothout touch the basic
template, and in the output are the .def, the .dll and the .a file. I
suppose then that if you want make an .a file you have just to make a
dll. It is valid I'll suppose while no other thing is said. [I don't
know yet program them, but I am trying to write an application to
convert MSVC project to DEV-C++ project]