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Hi again,
After a defeat in Linux in other post (which I'm still finding a way), I have decided to give a shot in windows. However it produces DLL fine and I can use LoadLibrary(). I need it to produce .a file for static linking. How do i do it?
I use MinGW with CodeLite IDE.
Thanks!

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I'm not familiar with CodeLite, but I'd say take another look at your project-creation options. I suspect that shared libraries (*.dll) and static libraries (*.a) are different project types. I know they are in Code::Blocks and in MS-VC++.

Also check the MinGW documentation, you can probably just change a couple compiler flags in your current project.

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I'm not familiar with CodeLite, but I'd say take another look at your project-creation options. I suspect that shared libraries (*.dll) and static libraries (*.a) are different project types. I know they are in Code::Blocks and in MS-VC++.

You are right but don't MSVC produce .lib file when creating DLL? I want to use it for linking instead of providing some sort of .def file. How that goe? I'm still searching on net for solution.

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