Re: [SUGGESTION] Some lfs functionality in os library, please!

[Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@...>]

On Sep 25, 2016 05:45, "Jonathan Goble" <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
> you must ALWAYS have a .lib
> file in order to link to a library at compile time. In the case of
> static linking, that .lib file is your entire library, but in the case
> of dynamic linking, it's only an import library allowing the compiler
> to resolve the symbols in the .dll file (which is the actual code
> library).

FWIW if you only have the .dll (and not the .lib), it is possible to create an import library for it: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/createimportlibraries