On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:07:11PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >On 14 February 2006 17:35, Tischler, Ron wrote: >>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent >>Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:01 PM > >>"Tischler, Ron" wrote: >> >>>I am trying to use Cygwin to write a PC application that calls the >>>function named FtpCommand. Microsoft documentation that I found online >>>says that there is a header named wininet.h and a library named >>>wininet.lib to link in. On my PC, under the Cygwin stuff, I see >>>wininet.h, but not wininet.lib. > >>Cygwin does not use .lib files, and the naming of libraries is that of >>unix. So you use -lfoo to link with libfoo.a (or sometimes >>libfoo.dll.a) which is the import library for the DLL. > >>Thanks for your reply, but the makefiles that I'm using do use .lib >>files, and things are following PC rather than unix conventions, and I >>am already getting wininet.lib, because other stuff that is working >>comes from there. > >"My makefiles are using the wrong input files" > >"Well, get them to use the correct input files" > >"But I don't want to change them. Tell me how to use the wrong files >instead."
Actually, it's "But I don't want to change them because that's too complicated. Please engage me in a days-long back and forth email discussion so that I can avoid this complication and painstakingly figure out how to avoid changing my makefiles." ><smacks self across forehead with large wet fish in sheer despair> Indeed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/