Re: How to create header for static library using VC6

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:50:47 -0700
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Your resources from .lib won't be used by linker.

"ColinG" <csg@mine.com> wrote in message
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Hi David,

Thanks David. This has answered my query.

Colin

"David Lowndes" <DavidL@example.invalid> wrote in message
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This static library: me.lib also has a resource file: me.rc. The header
for
this resource file is: resource.h. But test.dsw also has a resource.h for
test.rc. I am guessing that for me to be able to use me.rc via test.dsw,
I
will need to append the content of resource.h for me.rc into resource.h
for
test.rc?


Colin,

I'm not sure quite what you want to do, but if you're expecting to be
able to share the resources from a static library - you can't. Static
libraries don't contain resources - though the tools won't inform you
that it won't work. The only way to share resources is via a DLL.

Dave

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