[Distutils] freebsd .a files

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> In article <3A705090.BFA90C16@lemburg.com>, M.-A. Lemburg
> <mal@lemburg.com> writes
> ....
> >
> >Ah, so you do want to link using the static lib ? This should
> >be possible by placing the 'libgd.a' into the objects option:
> >
> >       objects = ['libgd.a']
> >
> OK that's nice, any idea how to create .a (win32 .lib) files using
> distutils. Even my .a files have to be rebuilt.

I don't know how well it works, but the build_clib command
is supposed to support this. The PIL example in the distutils
distribution makes use of this command, AFAIR.

BTW, I think the correct option name is "extra_objects" --
I read the code and didn't try this out.

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