Visual Studio using cygwin1.dll

I want to use cygwin1.dll with Visual Studio. It doesn't know how to handle cygwin1.dll without cygwin1.lib and cygwin1.def. I have not seen these files, and attempts to do stuff like dumpbin /exports cygwin1.dll gives me errors like: DUMPBIN : error : internal error during DumpSections Do I

Re: How to create LIB from DLL

Larry, Due to circumstances beyond my control (yes, I know it sounds stupid), I don't have admin on my box and setup is so darned smart, it refuses to run. SO that means that I am stuck... I haven't found a site that will allow me to pick-and-choose which files I want, but if I do, I'm in busin

How to create LIB from DLL

THE SETUP: I'm new to Visual Studio (please don't hate me for using MS products), so I could be doing something fundamentally wrong (I've done c++ on unix for 4ish years, and I just transitioned over to PC-land)... I have cygwin1.dll, nothing else. THE PROBLEM: I want to link some code in VSC+