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March 17th, 2013, 09:19 PM

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Library problem

hello there everyone, to be honest i'm not sure if this topic are supposed to be here, if its not then move it to somewhere appropriate

regardless, here's the problem

i am using windows 7 and recently downloaded jpeglib and libexif from sourceforge.net

the problem is how do i install/set path to these two libraries

March 18th, 2013, 12:41 AM

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Well it might be useful if you told us which programming language you're using, so it could be moved to a better forum.

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March 18th, 2013, 07:02 AM

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oh its C/C++

sorry bout that but if you happen to know how to solve the problem then i'll be very thankful

March 18th, 2013, 01:58 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by exif README-Win32.txt

If this is a combined source/binary distribution tree, then you can find

* the binary DLL in the subdirectory binary/bin/
* the include files in the subdirectory binary/include/

As for building libexif yourself on or for Win32, you can

a) hack yourself a build system somehow
This seems to be the Windows way of doing things.
b) Use MinGW32

If you use MinGW32 (including MSYS) on Windows, building libexif should
follow the usual pattern of

./configure
make
make install

as for any Unix like system and you can just follow the general
instructions.

Something neat to do is to use a MinGW32 cross compiler on a Unix
system (Debian ships one for example). Then you can run

./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --disable-nls
make
make install

If you want to build a combined source/binary distribution tarball/zipfile,
then add the --enable-ship-binaries option to the ./configure command line.

Not much help I'm afraid.
You could search the maillist archive and maybe ask a question or two when you're done searching.

March 20th, 2013, 01:23 AM

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it works, i'm quite happy i manage to get the library however the library is in .A while i need it to be in either .dll or .lib

i already did my search on google on how to convert from .A to .dll and i found this:

"Place your rename your file from .A to .lib, place it along with the source files of the project.

Now go to project's properties and in the vc++ include directories add the path of the header/include files for that lib."

stackoverflow.com/questions/4396294/how-to-use-a-lib-files-with-visual-studio-2008

and it doesn't work

i'm using visual studion 2010 by the way

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