Re: Using Cygwin compiled libs in Visual Studio

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 08:55:42PM +0100, Olumide wrote: >On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 04:48:25PM +0100, Olumide wrote: >>>I guess what I find surprising is that gcc can be used to produce >>>Windows XP runnable code. Here's a typica

Re: Using Cygwin compiled libs in Visual Studio

2009-04-04 Thread Olumide
I guess what I find surprising is that gcc can be used to produce Windows XP runnable code. Here's a typical compilation command generated by the build process: ... Why is this surprising? Cygwin *is* Windows XP runnable code. Is it? Pardon my n00bness but I recall once trying to run a Cygwi

Re: Using Cygwin compiled libs in Visual Studio

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 04:48:25PM +0100, Olumide wrote: > I guess what I find surprising is that gcc can be used to produce Windows > XP runnable code. Here's a typical compilation command generated by the > build process: > > gcc -c -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DWINDOWS_ABI -Wall -m32 -DF_INTERFACE_F2C

Re: Using Cygwin compiled libs in Visual Studio

2009-04-04 Thread Olumide
Is it possible or recommended to use a Cygwin compiled lib file or dll in Visual studio? The problem is that although I'm doing my development in Visual Studio, a number of the sources I intend to use have Cygwin makefiles but no Visual studio projects. ... You're probably more interested in th

Re: Using Cygwin compiled libs in Visual Studio

2009-03-31 Thread Tim Prince
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Olumide wrote: Hello, Is it possible or recommended to use a Cygwin compiled lib file or dll in Visual studio? The problem is that although I'm doing my development in Visual Studio, a number of the sources I intend to use have Cygwin makefiles but no Visual studio

Re: Using Cygwin compiled libs in Visual Studio

2009-03-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Olumide wrote: Hello, Is it possible or recommended to use a Cygwin compiled lib file or dll in Visual studio? The problem is that although I'm doing my development in Visual Studio, a number of the sources I intend to use have Cygwin makefiles but no Visual studio projects. See: