<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesper Eskilson</b> <<a href="mailto:jesper@eskilson.se">jesper@eskilson.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/6/7, Jesper Eskilson <<a href="mailto:jesper@eskilson.se" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jesper@eskilson.se</a>>:</span><div><span class="e" id="q_1132009c01542077_1">
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/6/7, Brandon Van Every <<img style="border: medium none ;" title="send email to bvanevery@gmail.com via gmail">
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On 6/7/07, Jesper Eskilson <<img style="border: medium none ;" title="send email to jesper@eskilson.se via gmail">
<a href="mailto:jesper@eskilson.se" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jesper@eskilson.se</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> I would like to be able to create a static library on Windows which
<br>> includes an import library to a DLL, so that users of the static
<br>> library do not need to specify the import library.<br><br></blockquote></span></div></blockquote></span></div><span class="q"><div><br>I'm still interested in a solution to my original problem, though.</div>
</span></div></blockquote><div><br><br>On some platforms, I bet the underlying linker AR can't even do it. I know it can't put static libraries inside of static libraries, thats' why everyone wants "convenience libraries" and I had to work on all that object file fakery. Possibly it can't take a DLL stub .lib either. So, if there is a solution for some platforms, it's not likely to be portable.
<br><br>I don't know what the MSVC linker can accomplish. Would suggest reading the MSVC docs to make sure it can be done.<br><br>What you're asking for seems kinda weird. What's the motive?<br><br></div><br>
</div>Cheers,<br>Brandon Van Every<br><br>