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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: linking fbsd prog with sco lib?
In-Reply-To: <199611051325.OAA03669@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> from Marc van Kempen at "Nov 5, 96 02:25:04 pm"
To: marc@bowtie.nl (Marc van Kempen)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 15:50:18 +0100 (MET)
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm want to develop a database program with the sco version
> of Solid Server (http://www.solidtech.com).
> 
> I'm trying to un'ar the supplied library, but have had
> little success so far, so ...
> 
> Is there any point in trying this at all? I mean will
> the library, when I put it back together as a freebsd
> library, work when linked with my own application?

When they are using streams sockets you're out of luck. 

> 
> And, how do I un'ar it? I tried the following:
> 
> ar x solcli.a
> ar Tx solcli.a
> ar x solcli.a su0rbtr2.o

You have to unar under SCO (ar xv solcli.a `ar t solcli.a`) (not sure
about SCOs ar switches though). You may also try the binutils-2.7 ar.


> 
> None of these work and give me errors about not finding the 
> object files in the archive. It can read the names of the archives
> however.
> 
> All of this is on a 2.2-960801-SNAP system.
> 
> Regards,
> Marc.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Marc van Kempen                 BowTie Technology     
> Email: marc@bowtie.nl            WWW & Databases
> tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65         
> fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86         http://www.bowtie.nl
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de