Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/08/17/02:16:36
Does anybody know if it's possible to compile code using a Win32
compiler and then link that code with some djgpp support routines,
ending up with a 32-bit protected-mode DOS program? (Needless to
say, the Win32 code wouldn't contain any Windows calls; I just want
to be able to use the language syntax of a particular Win32 compiler.
In other words, I'd just be using the Win32 compiler to produce
generic x86 code.)
The reason I want to do this is I have some code written in Apple's
Object Pascal (not the same as Borland-style Object Pascal) which I
would like to port to a protected-mode DOS environment, using djgpp
for graphics and other custom support routines. Unfortunately,
there isn't a DOS compiler for Apple's Object Pascal, but there
is a Win32-based compiler (Metrowerks CodeWarrior). Using this
compiler would let me leave the original code unchanged, which
would be nice :-). The underlying graphics and other MacOS routines
that are called would be written using djgpp and Allegro, and
djgpp would have to be able to link the code produced by the Win32
compiler with this djgpp code.
It sounds like it should be possible to do this (32-bit x86 code
shouldn't care which compiler produced it), but a different object
file format may disturb the linker.
Thanks in advance for any solutions, or for any other ideas on this.
Mitchell
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