Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/12/06:15:35
dtsw98 AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
>yes but can these libraries be linked into RSXNTDJ applications?
Eh, probably not. That was just me trying to be helpful without
really understanding the problem. Besides, I don't know the first
thing about RSXNTDJ.
Anyway, as far as I can tell this isn't a problem with RSXNTDJ, or
with the Cabinet SDK libraries in particular, it is a problem of
getting the GNU linker to recognize MS import libraries in general.
I tried compiling the two test programs in the Cab SDK Samples dir
using gcc-2.95 under Mingw32, and they both failed at the linking
stage because the linker didn't recognize the lib files.
I am not aware of a whole lot of linkers that are freely available
and could be used instead of ld.exe. ALINK is one example, but
ALINK 1.6 doesn't appear to support MS import libraries either.
Another possibility which I am currently trying to investigate is
Microsoft's own 32-bit link.exe, which is supposed to be available
from somewhere on the MS website (possibly my least favourite
place on the WWW).
Lars
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