Re: libssh and MinGW

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 31 July 2013 09:55:43 Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've made sure that master is compiling with Visual Studio and MinGW just
> fine.
> 
> Visual Studio creates a .lib file normally you need for linking. If I
> remember correctly. MinGW produces a libssh.dll and libssh.dll.a file. The
> libssh.dll.a is the same as the lib file, right? Is it possible to create a
> lib file too?
> 

I've found it:

MinGW -> MSVC
==============

Use MinGW pexports to create a def file:
pexports libssh.dll > libssh.def


Then use the MSVC lib tool:
lib /machine:x86 /def:libssh.def


MSVC -> MinGW
==============

reimp libssh.lib
pexports libssh.dll | sed "s/^_//" > libssh.def
dlltool -U -d libssh.def -l libssh.dll.a


http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs


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