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newbie level overview needed
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: newbie level overview needed
- From: jim@nga.com (Jim Roy)
- Date: Mon, 24 May 99 17:46:20 PDT
Where does one go for newbie level information about building apps
for Win/NT?
From tidbits gleaned from the FAQ and the mail archive, I have managed to
muddle my way thru building an example app that links to a 3rd party DLL.
I never would have guessed ( and nothing in the docs from the 3rd party
suggests ) that I would have to skip the development lib altogether,
build a xxx.a file from the actual DLL ( which xxx.a file not being
anything like a regular unix shared library ) and link with that.
What I really need to get going on my REAL project is a good overview
of the landscape. How do lib files, dll's, *.a files relate? What's
the correct syntax for a .def file? Are some dll's _not_ "relocatable"?
Something that explains the major pieces of the puzzle without going
into too much detail, so I don't have to do a linear search of the details
every time I get hung up.
Thanks
Jim Roy
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