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I new a lib project, Add several lib files, and Build, but the resulting lib file is only 1k, not the sum of linked lib files. Please tell me how to link these lib files into one lib file in IDE(BCB6), since I don't want to add many lib files in my project.
Thanks!

Ed Mulroy [TeamB] · Guest

Are the files static libraries or import libraries?

.. Ed

Guest

They are static libraries created by File|New|Other|Library. and I'd like to merge them into one static lib.
Thanks.

"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me (AT) bitbuc (DOT) ket> wrote:

Remy Lebeau (TeamB) · Guest

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Ed Mulroy [TeamB] · Guest

I know of two ways in which that can be done.

As Remy has already said, you could add the individual source file items
that are what were used to create the constituents all of the libraries to a
project and create a new library. This is the easiest way.

The other way is more involved and uses the command line. If you can do it
in the manner Remy mentioned then that is the best way.

If you have the set of object files on your disk then you can do it like
this. This creates a new library of the name result.lib

Create a new directory and copy or move the object files to it.
Make that directory the default directory.
Run this command

for %a in (*.obj) do echo %a & >>result.2
(note that there is a space between the '%a' and the '&')

Edit the file result.2 and delete the '&' character on the last line

Create the new library with this command.

tlib /C result.lib @result.2

If you do not have the set of object files then here is how it might be
done. For this I will pretend that you are doing this to three libraries,
A.lib, B.lib and C.lib

Create a new directory and place copies of the libraries into it.
Make that directory the default directory.

Construct a file for each library containing the list of object files it
contains. It might go like this:

Generate a listing file for each of the libraries. The command line for
each would be like this:
tlib /C a.LIB , a.LST
(do not overlook the comma between the names)

The contents of a list file looks something like this:

--------------------
Publics by module

8087 size = 4
__8087

__access size = 60
___access

hypot size = 117
___org_hypot _hypot
--------------------

Make another file containing only the object file names from the list file.
grep "size =" a.lst >a.2
(there is no 'magic' to the .2 extension, you could use something else)

The file that creates, a.2 in this example, will look something like this:
--------------------
File libname.lst:
8087 size = 4
__access size = 60
hypot size = 117
--------------------

You now have created A.2, B.2 and C.2

Now edit the *.2 files and for each do this:
Delete the first line (the "File a.lst" line)
For each "size =" delete it and whatever follows on the line and
add " &", a space followed by an ampersand
Insert an asterisk (a '*') in column 1 of each line

Make a file for the big library that will be the result in this way:
copy /v a.2+b.2+c.2 result.2

Edit all the *.2 files again, deleting the ampersand (the '&') on the last
line.

Now each of the *.2 files looks something like this:
--------------------
*8087 &
*__access &
*hypot
--------------------
Note that the last line does NOT have an ampersand

Edit the result.2 line and do a search-and-replace to substitute a plus (a
'+' ) for the asterisks.

The result.2 line now looks like this:
--------------------
+8087 &
+__access &
+hypot
--------------------

The '*' is a command for the librarian to create a *.obj file on the disk
for the module of that name in the library.

The '+' is a command for the librarian to add a *.obj file to the library.

The *.2 files are to be response files for the librarian, files whose input
will be accepted as if they came from the command line.

The commands to create the object files on the disk from the libraries would
look like this:

tlib /C a.lib @a.2
tlib /C b.lib @b.2
tlib /C c.lib @c.2

If you have many libraries that is a lot of typing. You could instead do
this from the command line
for %a in (a b c) do tlib /C %a @%a.2

or this from a batch file (note the doubled '%' characters)
for %%a in (a b c) do tlib /C %%a @%%a.2

This command would create the new library:
tlib /C result.lib @result.2

I hope this helps.

.. Ed

Dennis Jones · Guest

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam (AT) no (DOT) spam.yahoo.com> wrote

Ed Mulroy [TeamB] · Guest

I know of two ways in which that can be done.

As Remy has already said, you could add the individual source file items
that are what were used to create the constituents all of the libraries to a
project and create a new library. This is the easiest way.

The other way is more involved and uses the command line. If you can do it
in the manner Remy mentioned then that is the best way.

If you have the set of object files on your disk then you can do it like
this. This creates a new library of the name result.lib

Create a new directory and copy or move the object files to it.
Make that directory the default directory.
Run this command

for %a in (*.obj) do echo *%a & >>result.2
(note: char before the right percent sign is an asterisk and there
is a space between the '%a' and the '&')

Edit the file result.2 and delete the '&' character on the last line

Create the new library with this command.

tlib /C result.lib @result.2

If you do not have the set of object files then here is how it might be
done. For this I will pretend that you are doing this to three libraries,
A.lib, B.lib and C.lib

Create a new directory and place copies of the libraries into it.
Make that directory the default directory.

Construct a file for each library containing the list of object files it
contains. It might go like this:

Generate a listing file for each of the libraries. The command line for
each would be like this:
tlib /C a.LIB , a.LST
(do not overlook the comma between the names)

The contents of a list file looks something like this:

--------------------
Publics by module

8087 size = 4
__8087

__access size = 60
___access

hypot size = 117
___org_hypot _hypot
--------------------

Make another file containing only the object file names from the list file.
grep "size =" a.lst >a.2
(there is no 'magic' to the .2 extension, you could use something else)

The file that creates, a.2 in this example, will look something like this:
--------------------
File libname.lst:
8087 size = 4
__access size = 60
hypot size = 117
--------------------

You now have created A.2, B.2 and C.2

Now edit the *.2 files and for each do this:
Delete the first line (the "File a.lst" line)
For each "size =" delete it and whatever follows on the line and
add " &", a space followed by an ampersand
Insert an asterisk (a '*') in column 1 of each line

Make a file for the big library that will be the result in this way:
copy /v a.2+b.2+c.2 result.2

Edit all the *.2 files again, deleting the ampersand (the '&') on the last
line.

Now each of the *.2 files looks something like this:
--------------------
*8087 &
*__access &
*hypot
--------------------
Note that the last line does NOT have an ampersand

Edit the result.2 line and do a search-and-replace to substitute a plus (a
'+' ) for the asterisks.

The result.2 line now looks like this:
--------------------
+8087 &
+__access &
+hypot
--------------------

The '*' is a command for the librarian to create a *.obj file on the disk
for the module of that name in the library.

The '+' is a command for the librarian to add a *.obj file to the library.

The *.2 files are to be response files for the librarian, files whose input
will be accepted as if they came from the command line.

The commands to create the object files on the disk from the libraries would
look like this:

tlib /C a.lib @a.2
tlib /C b.lib @b.2
tlib /C c.lib @c.2

If you have many libraries that is a lot of typing. You could instead do
this from the command line
for %a in (a b c) do tlib /C %a @%a.2

or this from a batch file (note the doubled '%' characters)
for %%a in (a b c) do tlib /C %%a @%%a.2

This command would create the new library:
tlib /C result.lib @result.2

I hope this helps.

.. Ed

Remy Lebeau (TeamB) · Guest

"Dennis Jones" <djones (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote

Remy Lebeau (TeamB) · Guest

"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me (AT) bitbuc (DOT) ket> wrote

Ed Mulroy [TeamB] · Guest

Yep.

My wife calls that a senior moment while my sister-in-law calls it a brain
f*rt. <g>

.. Ed

Remy Lebeau (TeamB) · Guest

"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me (AT) bitbuc (DOT) ket> wrote