On 14/09/2012 5:16 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: > ar does not touch the contents of the individual files. Does lib.exe > add something extra to the archive that ar does not?
The linker needs it in MSVC's .lib format in order to correctly handle objects with the same name (e.g. mlpdsp.o). This affects debug linking. >> I also think its a good idea to be able to build without grabbing any part >> of gcc or binutils. > > We require piles of gnu tools anyway, so what's one more? As it stands, we don't actually require having binutils or gcc at all with msvc, EXCEPT for ar. - Derek _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
