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Adding External Library to HelloWorld C++

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TDragon:

--- Quote from: MortenMacFly on March 18, 2006, 04:56:17 pm ---It looks you are using a MSVC library (.lib) with the MinGW/GCC compiler. This won't work.

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Actually, the GCC linker can interpret .lib files. This only works to a certain extent, because MSVC DLL symbols usually can't be resolved correctly, but purely static libraries can usually be made to work -- SDL_ttf being one instance where I've done so.

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