From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24676 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2004 11:17:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24666 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2004 11:17:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO psmtp.com) (64.18.1.212) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 15 Oct 2004 11:17:39 -0000 Received: from source ([192.150.22.8]) by exprod6ob2.obsmtp.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:17:18 PDT Received: from inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (inner-relay-1 [153.32.1.51]) by smtp-relay-8.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9FBHGbA017516; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iplan-mn (iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com [130.248.25.5]) by inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9FBHFTk015190; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mn-eljay-a51m.adobe.com ([130.248.178.15]) by iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I5M00H9FI0POK@iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com>; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:17:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:00 -0000 From: Eljay Love-Jensen Subject: Re: Convert dynamic lib to static lib In-reply-to: <416F97A4.9060904@iinet.net.au> X-Sender: eljay@iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com To: Sisyphus , gcc Message-id: <6.1.2.0.2.20041015061244.03e9bd10@iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <416F97A4.9060904@iinet.net.au> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 Hi Rob, I don't know of any way to make a dynamically linked library (.dll or .so) into a statically linked archive library (.lib or .a). I believe you'll have to recompile the source of the two .dll's (or at minimum, ar together the .o files - presuming there's no DLL instrumentation that happens to the object files at compile time) as an archive library instead of a shared library. HTH, --Eljay