Re: [gtk-list] Re: win32 install info

[Markus Fischer <mfischer josefine ben tuwien ac at>]

Once upon a time (around Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 12:47:51PM +0100 i think)
 Øystein O Johansen  told me :
> 4. Hey! The new zipfiles contain lib*.a files!! You do not have to create
>    them from the DLL's!! Thanks Tor!

	what is the difference between the .a and .dll files, except
that windwos only loads .dll during runtime ?

> 7. Do a small test, like 'Hello World'
>    gcc hello.c -o hello -lgdi32 -lkernel32 -lglib -lgdk -lgtk -lm

	Hm, do i really need gdi32,kernel32 ? afaik i never linked with
those and everything works (albeit slow, is this the solution ?)

cheers,
	Markus