I wrote a tutorial about compiling and linking a single external with Dev-C++ a few months back. Now I've added a small tutorial about writing a library of externals. For the more seasoned programmers here, it wont be worth looking at. But it took me some time to figure it all out, and I hope I can save other beginning programmers some time this way. Suggestions are welcome, of course.
Find it at: http://youngmusic.org/wiki/index.php/Software
Regards,
Yvan Vander Sanden