While you're mostly correct, I would point out just for the sake of insufferable precision, that "Lib" is just an alias for "link /LIB". Lib.exe is just a stub that calls "link /LIB", so in the example below, you would just as easily put link /LIB /OUT:libfoo.lib foo1.obj foo2.obj foo3.obj Jonathan At 08:40 AM 3/9/2000, James C. Ahlstrom wrote:
Well, no. AFAIK "link" can create only executables or DLL's, not libraries. Note that, despite the name, a Dynamic Link Library is very much like an executable and not much like a Unix static lib.
To create libraries under Windows, use the lib program: lib.exe /OUT:libfoo.lib foo1.obj foo2.obj foo3.obj
Only the Windows "Great Unwashed" pay attention to this. Normal Windows people use the development environment. In particular this makes it easy to use lengthy lists of *.obj's instead of libraries.
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