From:	Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Using Microsoft C object code with DJGPP/RHIDE
Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:13:06 -0800
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Dr Arthur Jones wrote:
> 
> As something of a raw recruit to DJGPP and RHIDE (and very impressed
> with both of these!) I am trying to find whether I can use DJGPP to write
> some software to control an item of laboratory equipment which involves
> some plug-in hardware (an analog-to-digital converter) which plugs into
> the parallel port of the PC.  The ADC comes with a disk of driver
> functions written (I am told) in assembler and callable from Microsoft C.
> The header file for these subroutines consists of two function prototypes
> of the form
> 
> extern far function1( int, int, .... )
> 
> I've tried loading the object code into a RHIDE project and compiling/
> linking the program, but it gives something like "parse error before ("
> when it gets to the header file and doesn't compile.
> 
> Is it fundamentally possible to link MS-C object code into DJGPP? Am I
> missing the obvious, or am I trying to do the impossible?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
AFAIK,no.The obj format used by Borland or Micro$oft is different from
the one used in DJGPP.
Anyway,look into the faq(you could search fot 'obj' ,they say something
there about it). 
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