[Mingw-users] linking with libraries built with MSVS?

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

First of all, many thanks to everyone who answered my questions so patiently!

I have a library <http://norsys.com/netica_c_api.htm> which includes a
.lib, .dll and .h files (no sources) and I am trying to use it with
mingw.

it compiles fine but gives many many link errors like

$ gcc -mno-cygwin Demo.c -lnetica -L.
/cygdrive/c/Temp/ccWKOXYb.o(.text+0x1c):Demo.c: undefined reference to `_imp__NewStreamFile_ns@12'
/cygdrive/c/Temp/ccWKOXYb.o(.text+0x3d):Demo.c: undefined reference to `_imp__HasNodeTable_bn@8'
/cygdrive/c/Temp/ccWKOXYb.o(.text+0x59):Demo.c: undefined reference to `_imp__GetNodeType_bn@4'
/cygdrive/c/Temp/ccWKOXYb.o(.text+0x91):Demo.c: undefined reference to `_imp__GetNodeType_bn@4'
/cygdrive/c/Temp/ccWKOXYb.o(.text+0xc9):Demo.c: undefined reference to `_imp__SetNodeFuncState_bn@12'
/cygdrive/c/Temp/ccWKOXYb.o(.text+0xf0):Demo.c: undefined reference to `_imp__SetNodeFuncReal_bn@16'

msvs links it just fine.

is there a way for me to use this library with mingw?

thanks!

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