On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Luís Oliveira <lolive...@common-lisp.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I am trying to link to a VISA library (VISA is used to control data >> acquisition instruments), visa32.lib compiled for Windows. The library is >> shipped with Tektronix software. > > I'm surprised loading it works. That sounds like a static library. > >> Using `nm' I did find: >> 00000000 I __imp__viOpenDefaultRM@4 >> 00000000 T _viOpenDefaultRM@4
.lib is the naming convention for an MSVC import library, forwarding to a .dll. In cygwin and mingw it is usually named .dll.a. See the I type, and the __imp__ prefix. With gnu binutils you can find the matching dll (they have versioned names, and no symlink support) via dllimport -I libname -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/
