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Problem with LIB51 and upper/lower case names

Andrew E. Kalman

I'm having a problem with the filenames that LIB51 generates.

Under Win98, if I do:

lib51.exe TRANSFER a.obj, b.obj TO silly.lib

I end up with a library called Silly.lib when viewed from Windows explorer.

If I do the same from within a Cygwin bash shell running "under" Win98 or Win2000, I end up with SILLY.LIB.

What I really want is an all-lower-case silly.lib.

4 other compilers I use (gcc, HI-TECH PICC, HI-TECH V8C, CodeWarrior) preserve filename case in this situation.

Is there a way to preserve the filename's case when building a library with LIB51.EXE?

Thanks,

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  • 0 in reply to Andrew Neil

    Hi Andrew.

    I agree that it's mainly an OS issue, but the makefile that's driving the libarians of all the other 4 listed compilers is feeding filenames to them the same way as it feeds LIB51 -- yet only LIB51's output results in upper-case letters in the filename.

    So I think there's something more than just the OS at issue here ...

    Anyway, I found a PERL script that forces lowercase on a directory's files rather nicely.

    As to why ... ALL-UPPERCASE LETTERS ARE VERY HARD ON THE EYES ... :-)

    Regards,

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  • 0 in reply to Andrew Neil

    Hi Andrew.

    I agree that it's mainly an OS issue, but the makefile that's driving the libarians of all the other 4 listed compilers is feeding filenames to them the same way as it feeds LIB51 -- yet only LIB51's output results in upper-case letters in the filename.

    So I think there's something more than just the OS at issue here ...

    Anyway, I found a PERL script that forces lowercase on a directory's files rather nicely.

    As to why ... ALL-UPPERCASE LETTERS ARE VERY HARD ON THE EYES ... :-)

    Regards,

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