HOWTO: Porting Static PowerPC Libraries

• Microsoft Visual C++, Macintosh Cross-Development Addon, versions 4.0, 4.0b
  on the following platforms: MACINTOSH

SUMMARY

To use a static PowerPC library in a Visual C++ Macintosh application, the library must first be converted to a CFM (Code Fragment Manager) Shared Library using a native PowerPC Macintosh development environment. The shared library can then be ported, and linked dynamically. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q145822 DOC: Creating Import Libraries for PowerPC Shared Libraries

MORE INFORMATION

Many Macintosh libraries are delivered as static libraries. There are a number of proprietary formats for 68K static libraries. MPW (Macintosh Programmers Workshop) libraries, usually named with a ".o" extension, are the most common and most interchangeable format. These can be converted to Visual C++ static libraries using MPW2LIB.

PowerPC static libraries cannot be converted using MPW2LIB. PowerPC static libraries must first be converted to shared libraries using a Macintosh development environment other than Visual C++.

In general, a static library can be converted to a shared library by:

1. Creating a new shared library that includes the static library.



2. Exporting the static library's symbols.

Q145822 DOC: Creating Import Libraries for PowerPC Shared Libraries

REFERENCES

(c) Microsoft Corporation 1999, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Adam Kim, Microsoft Corporation.

Additional query words: PowerPC Macintosh PowerMac XCOFF .o static library shared import export mpw2lib

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Version : MACINTOSH:4.0,4.0b
Platform : MACINTOSH
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