Re: DLL into .a (Metis problem)

2008-03-19 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello I have an experience to build the Metis from source on cygwin. It is not so tough work so that you can get everything if you build the METIS libraries by yourself. However, the Metis license is NOT compatible to GPL. Therefore, the octave community have decided not to use the Metis to con

Re: DLL into .a

2008-03-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Paulo Mota wrote: > Is there a tool to convert a DLL (which has no API Windows calls) into a > lib.a or lib.la ? That is not possible. A DLL is fully linked code. A static library (libfoo.a) is unlinked code. Linking is a one-way process, it removes information that cannot be recovered. A fil