g++: Creating DLL from .a files

[ernesto]

Hi everybody:

I have a project with a lot of source files.
Every logical set of source files is compiled and archived in .a files
(using mingw toolchain):
* library.data.a
* library.ui.a
* library.service .a

Now, I want to create a library.dll file from my .a files; how can I do
that?

I have seen that I can create DLLs from .o files, but I did not see any
example about creating DLLs from .a

Thanks in advance

ernesto

[Alan Johnson]

ernesto wrote:

Hi everybody:

I have a project with a lot of source files.
Every logical set of source files is compiled and archived in .a files
(using mingw toolchain):
* library.data.a
* library.ui.a
* library.service .a

Now, I want to create a library.dll file from my .a files; how can I do
that?

I have seen that I can create DLLs from .o files, but I did not see any
example about creating DLLs from .a

Thanks in advance

ernesto

Platform and implementation specific questions are off topic here.

That said, on most platforms static libraries can be linked to in the
same way as object files. Example :
g++ -o program_name file1.o file2.o library1.a library2.a

So if you already have your problem solved for object files, it
shouldn't be too hard to extend it to libraries.

-Alan

[Rolf Magnus]

ernesto wrote:

Hi everybody:

I have a project with a lot of source files.
Every logical set of source files is compiled and archived in .a files
(using mingw toolchain):
* library.data.a
* library.ui.a
* library.service .a

Now, I want to create a library.dll file from my .a files; how can I do
that?

I have seen that I can create DLLs from .o files, but I did not see any
example about creating DLLs from .a

If you know how to do it with the .o files, why don't you just extract them
from the archive?

[ernesto]

Rolf Magnus wrote:

If you know how to do it with the .o files, why don't you just extract
them
from the archive?
Hi:

I create several .a files with different Makefiles, now, I want to
combine them and create an only DLL file.

[Donovan Rebbechi]

On 2005-06-25, ernesto <eb******@gmail .com> wrote:

Hi everybody:

I have a project with a lot of source files.
Every logical set of source files is compiled and archived in .a files
(using mingw toolchain):
* library.data.a
* library.ui.a
* library.service .a

Now, I want to create a library.dll file from my .a files; how can I do
that?

I have seen that I can create DLLs from .o files, but I did not see any
example about creating DLLs from .a

Thanks in advance

Just use the same compile line on the .a files. e.g.
g++ -shared -o libfoo.so x1.a x2.a ...

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/