Linking to library in other project

[B.R.]

Hello,

I am a new user here :o)

I plan on using the libevent library for the very first time in a project.
I wonder about something related to cross-compiling for Windows and Linux:

I compiled libevent with MinGW+MSYS on Windows in order to link my project
against the libevent.a (static linking).
What if I want to link my project with the same library for the Linux
version? I do not see any libevent.lib. Shall I use the libevent.a again?
Or should I compile libevent in Linux first then use its output library,
which I guess would be libevent(.dll).lib?

​Thanks,​

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*B. R.*

[Azat Khuzhin]

Post by B.R.
Hello,
I am a new user here :o)
I plan on using the libevent library for the very first time in a project.

Take a look at cmake.
http://cmake.org

Post by B.R.
I compiled libevent with MinGW+MSYS on Windows in order to link my project
against the libevent.a (static linking).
What if I want to link my project with the same library for the Linux
version? I do not see any libevent.lib. Shall I use the libevent.a again?
Or should I compile libevent in Linux first then use its output library,
which I guess would be libevent(.dll).lib?

linux libraries -extensions-:

dynamic library: *.so
$ l .cmake/lib/*.so
.cmake/lib/libevent_core.so@
.cmake/lib/libevent_extra.so@
.cmake/lib/libevent.so

static/archivied library: *.a
$ l .cmake/lib/*.so
.cmake/lib/libevent_core.so@
.cmake/lib/libevent_extra.so@
.cmake/lib/libevent.so@

[B.R.]

I saw the answer on the ML archive on the website project.
It seems the message did not go through some spam filters at some point...

OK thanks, I need to use CMake if I want to use it on Windows platforms. I
will see to that when needed.
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*B. R.*

Post by B.R.
Hello,
I am a new user here :o)
I plan on using the libevent library for the very first time in a project.
I compiled libevent with MinGW+MSYS on Windows in order to link my project
against the libevent.a (static linking).
What if I want to link my project with the same library for the Linux
version? I do not see any libevent.lib. Shall I use the libevent.a again?
Or should I compile libevent in Linux first then use its output library,
which I guess would be libevent(.dll).lib?
​Thanks,​
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*B. R.*