btw if anyone wants to kbow .libs made with MSVS are the same format as .a files for GCC.
I am not 100% sure, but AFAIK, only C VC++ .lib files are compatible with GCC linker. VC++ does some dirty things to C++ .lib files, and they do not work with GCC. At least thats what was said in the times of Visual Studio 6. There have been many changes in VC++7 and 8, maybe now they are compatible, but let me doubt it.