On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 5:43 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel < fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Am 19.03.2017 04:53 schrieb "silvioprog" <silviop...@gmail.com>: > > Unfortunately you can't use the static libraries (.a) of Intel because > they are generated for Linux, in spite of static libraries be > cross-platform. > > Non-sense. Static libraries are as platform specific as any other binary > code, after all it needs to call OS functions. > Well, I understand by cross-platform anything that is implemented on multiple platforms, so once ar archives can be generated for multiple ones, it makes sense for me. :-) > I'm not sure about the .lib files. MS's COFF files adopt the .lib > extension, but it is a little bit strange these sizes below: > > > > `libippi.a`: > > . original - 251 MB; > > . striped - 192 MB. > > > > `libippi.lib`: > > . original - 853 KB; > > . striped - no strip needed, it is already small. > > Seems like the second one is merely an import library for the DLL instead > of a real static library. > Indeed. And of course that is COFF as well. MSVC only supports COFF. > There isn't only one kind of COFF, AFAIK MS has an own COFF style and MSVC supports only that. Sure, Intel must have used MSVC ones. However, my *suggestion* about LacaK confirming that was just because he can generate an object or a shared library from a MS COFF file, solving his problem! -- Silvio Clécio
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