From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16460 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2011 05:57:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 16452 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jan 2011 05:57:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:57:09 +0000 Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pg9za-0003mx-O6; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:57:02 -0500 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Joel Brobecker CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20110121011433.GA2440@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:14:33 -0500) Subject: Re: FYI: WIP patch to build GDB with Python on MinGW Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20110121011433.GA2440@adacore.com> Message-Id: Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:56:00 -0000 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-01/txt/msg00433.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:14:33 -0500 > From: Joel Brobecker > > b. the python library in the /Lib directory I think it's in /libs, actually. What's in /Lib is the set of *.py Python library modules. > and is named libpython27.a (not '.' in the version number, > unlike on Unix where it's libpython2.7.a). Note that despite > the .a filename extension, it's NOT an archive (it sorta points > to the DLL, so at the end GDB is linked against the DLL which > is in the directory). I think libpython27.a _is_ an archive (try "ar tv" on it). I believe this is a so-called "import library" used to link programs against the corresponding DLL.