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This article is from the Amiga FAQ, by Ignaz Kellerer with numerous contributions by others.

4.13.6 Amiga Libraries

   Starting from this release an AmigaDOS compliant library is provided,
thanks to libnix authors (Matthias Fleischer and Gunther Nikl).
   Anyway if you want to rebuild one, there are two methods:
   1) Using hunk2gcc; the AmigaDOS object converter made by Markus
Wild. To achieve this, simply grab a copy of latest amiga.lib (from
Commodore Development Kit, see Includes) and make a new directory where
you want your converted object files to go, cd into it, and enter
     	hunk2gcc amiga.lib [..further libs if you like..]
   This generates an a.out object file for every program unit present
in the hunk file (in this case, from amiga.lib).
   As the final step convert all those files into an a.out style
library by issuing:
     	ar qc libamiga.a obj.*
     	ranlib libamiga.a
   The ranlib run builds a symbol table in the archive, and makes
accesses to the library much faster.
   2) Creating a libamiga.a library with libnix is fairly easy, but
takes some time. Just uncompress sources.lha from libnix distribution
and run a `make libamiga.a'.
   *Note:* As long as you make no AmigaDOS specific calls, you can
create a dummy library using:
       cat "int dummy;" >dummy.c
       gcc -c dummy.c
       ar crv libamiga.a dummy.o
       mv libamiga.a gcc:lib

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