[Mingw-users] Questions concerning DLL build

[Tilman U. <Til...@st...>]

Hi all,
The situation is as follows: I had a the sources of a library for gcc,
which I wanted to compile in a way, that I can use it for
win32-development. Because of the comfortable bash shell, I started with
cygwin, using the -mno-cygwin flag. Finally, I got everything working
i.e. I now have a bunch of headers and a .a file and with the mentioned
flag I'm able to build programs under cygwin that run on win32.
My next task is, to build a dll from the existing static library (Paul
Sokolovsky's howto I already have). But before beginning, I'd like to
ask for some tips:
-    Which 'system' do you recommend: cygwin, on which I worked before
or mingw (dllhelpers are available for both AFAIK...)
-    Would it be possible, if I ever suceed building the dll, to link it
with another linker than gcc (ld), e.g. with a MS linker. This would be
important because the institute I work for uses MSVC and I probably
can't link with that against a lib built with gcc (or can I?).

Thanks for any comments
Tilman

PS: I'm not sure whether I chose the right list, but I don't wanted to
crosspost...