Using a .lib built with Visual Studio in Eclipse/CDT/gcc

I am having some trouble compiling a programm with gcc on windows which was initially developed with Visual Studio. So far I was able to resolve almost all problems like missing header files and such, but now I am stuck at one last thing: gcc fails to link to one of the third party libs my program uses (FlyCapture2.lib). It tells me that it does not find any of the functions/methods there. I already c开发者_JAVA技巧hecked if the library is actually on the library path and that sort of things, but it still does not work.

I searched a bit around and learned that it might have something to do with the format of .libs created with the Microsoft compiler. Is there any way to convert such a lib to be compatible with gcc? Anything else I might have missed?

(I already found this similar question, but its solution won't work here)

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