From:	Dominique DOT Biesmans AT ping DOT be (Dominique Biesmans)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: MGL graphics library problem
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:16:25 GMT
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:31:22 -0800, Michal Mertl <mime AT eunet DOT cz>
wrote:

>In my previous post about MGL graphics library (I can't make it work with 
>DJGPP 2.01) I didn't write that problem is in linking. Kendall Bennet 
>(the author) told me that there is problem that in 2.01 linker. 
>This is what he wrote:
>	"The thing that is broken is the linker; tkey removed support for 
>the object file formats that we use. I have been talking to the guy who 
>ported the linker to DJGPP, and he has created a new object file 
>converter for us but we just habe not gotten around to getting it 
>tested."
>
>I think he is talking about emx2aout.exe (which I downloaded from 
>their ftp also with supplied linker for 2.01) but I don't know how to use 
>the converter and their linker doesn't work either. I think there can be 
>solution to extract the object files from library (libmgld.a) convert all 
> *.o files and to create the library again. But I don't know how to do 
>it. Probably I can dig information how to do it from infos but to tell do 
>truth I'm too lazy to do it. I just like progamming and don't like to 
>learn so much new things which are in such a complex package which I 
>think DJGPP is.
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Michal

You can just use the (older) linker they have provided on their ftp
site.

Dominique Biesmans

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