Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Building a library for use under Visual Studio 2008

2014-02-27 Thread Suresh Govindachar
On Thu, 2/27/14, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > 2014-02-26 21:44 GMT+01:00 Suresh Govindachar : [previous discussion provides some insight into the impossibility of using libraries built from C++11 sources and MinGW-w64 tools in a Visual Studio 2008 project] Quoting Bjarne Stroustrup from

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Building a library for use under Visual Studio 2008

2014-02-27 Thread Koehne Kai
> -Original Message- > From: Suresh Govindachar [mailto:sgovindac...@yahoo.com] > [...] > I have no preference for what command line compiler I use (g++, > clang, llvm) (provided the installation involves just extracting > files and setting up paths) and I don't care how the binary fi

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Building a library for use under Visual Studio 2008

2014-02-27 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2014-02-26 21:44 GMT+01:00 Suresh Govindachar : > Sorry, couldn't figure out how best to trim the email thread so erred on > the side of retaining the history; I did clean up the formatting -- > hopefully the email sending tool won't mess things up: > > On Wed, 2/26/14, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: >

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Building a library for use under Visual Studio 2008

2014-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Sorry, couldn't figure out how best to trim the email thread so erred on the side of retaining the history; I did clean up the formatting -- hopefully the email sending tool won't mess things up: On Wed, 2/26/14, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: >>2014-02-26 16:58 GMT+01:00 K. Frank wrote: >>

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Building a library for use under Visual Studio 2008

2014-02-26 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2014-02-26 16:58 GMT+01:00 K. Frank : > Hi Suresh! > > I am not fully certain of my answer, so I hope others will correct me if > I'm wrong. > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Suresh Govindachar > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I use MingGW64 for my development work on Windows 7 64 bit. > > ...

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Building a library for use under Visual Studio 2008

2014-02-26 Thread K. Frank
Hi Suresh! I am not fully certain of my answer, so I hope others will correct me if I'm wrong. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Hello, > > I use MingGW64 for my development work on Windows 7 64 bit. > ... > I use -std=c++0x and -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ flags

[Mingw-w64-public] Building a library for use under Visual Studio 2008

2014-02-25 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, I use MingGW64 for my development work on Windows 7 64 bit. Essentially, I build libraries via "ar rvs libfoo.a <*.o files>" and test the libraries by linking to a test harness that has main(). I use -std=c++0x and -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ flags. Can my lib*.a files be used by