[Mingw-users] compiling libraries

[Martell, J. <jma...@be...>]

hello,

  please forgive me if im asking a question already answered, but i couldnt
seem to search the mailing list archives at sourceforge.net. i cant figure
out how to create a library file (~.a ?) so i can link my code more easily
to libraries such as zlib ( http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ )and mss (
http://hem.passagen.se/blizzar/mss/ ) and perhaps others i would like to
make. as of now i link with zlib by simply including each ~.o file for the
numerous ~.c files that zlib is. it would be much simpler for me to create a
zlib library and link to it instead. how can i go about doing this with
MinGW?

 - jeremiah