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silkwodj AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:
> 
> Boy, John are you in luck!
> 
> Everyone else is worried about ELF's PE's and I don't know what else (I still
> would like to know though).  Your COFF object should have an .o extension.
> Just add it to the list of sources being fed to gcc. -  Make sure you have
> your functions prototyped as extern. -  Assure your functions will be
> declared as Global in your other source. -  Function names have to look like
> what the compiler expects, so a prefixed underscore must be assured. -  If
> you are compiling as c++ you must also assure name mangling will be
> accomodated.  The easiest way is usually to prototype the function(s) as
> extern "C" to eliminate this need.
> 
> BTW if you are linking with NASM there is a good tutorial on this.


OK, and where can I find this tutorial?