Re: [Dev-C++] Sample code COMMON CONTROLS: DATETIME PICKER & still lost

[Roberto R. <rob...@ar...>]

Yap, I´ll need a lots of HOWTOs to play friendly with the powerfull GNU 
world in a win32 style, cos Im not a programmer that is really funny !.

Best regards
Roberto

Per Westermark wrote:

>This isn't a funny MinGW syntax.
>
>Same thing if you work on Linux or FreeBSD or a number of other OS:es.
>
>No name collisions, since the loader always - a bit simplified but...
>- adds a "lib" prefix and a ".a" suffix. If you do write -llibcomctl32.a
>the linker will look for liblibcomctl32.a.a.
>
>Because you only specify the library name - not the actual file name - the
>linker may perform a lot of nifty extras, such as handling multiple
>versions of the libraries, shared-memory libraries, etc.
>
>If you want to know how it works, read
>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/
>or else just accept that the world is complicated and some things has to
>be taken at face value.
>
>/Per W
>
>
>On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Roberto Ricardi wrote:
>
>Ok, may be rigth or not, some warning level at first time linker 
>  
>
>>instance, anyway.
>>But, the fact is that mean comctl32.a looks like libcomctl32.a and the 
>>sintaxis must be -lNAME where NAME is comctl32 without the 'lib' header 
>>or '.a'  ext. ( I read about in the dev-cpp help) funny!.
>>Do you know some win32 source examples (not very complex of course) 
>>across the net more than draf a button, combo or something else ??
>>
>>Thanks Seb
>>
>>Roberto
>>
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