From: "Susan Forman" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: a86 .obj files how to link? Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:47:19 -0700 Organization: UUNET Lines: 36 Message-ID: <7uao80$33o$1@news01.arb1.te.uudial.us.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust129.tnt6.sfo1.da.uu.net X-Trace: news01.arb1.te.uudial.us.uu.net 940106816 3192 63.17.197.129 (16 Oct 1999 20:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news AT news01 DOT arb1 DOT te DOT uudial DOT us DOT uu DOT net NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Oct 1999 20:46:56 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello and thanks in advance for your help! I'm fairly new to all this but I have a general understanding of the issues involved and am good at figuring computer things out. I just need a little help or especially a pointer to the info that would tell me how to do this: I am using dos/win98, and the A86 assembler. I have generated .OBJ files from the asm source (along with .SYM symbol files) and now I'm trying to link them with my .c main program source (the asm files contain 'procedures' only.) Here's the command line and results: ------- C:\pygmy\modex>gcc l47-7.c *.obj -o l47.exe l47-7.c: In function `main': l47-7.c:12: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' l47-1.obj: file not recognized: File format not recognized ------- (some of you may recognize that I'm playing with Michael Abrash's graphics routines :) I know about and gratefully use Allegro, but I have my reasons for also doing this) I spent some time looking but I couldn't find anything to tell me how to link these properly. Does the djgpp linker just not know A86's object format? Can it be 'taught'? Can I convert to a different .OBJ format? Is there a BFD back end for A86 obj files? Can I output compatible .o format files from A86? I would love to be told where I could find this out on my own, but if one of you knows and cares to tell me directly that would also be awesome! Thank you thank you thank you again for your time and effort, sorry to be so long winded, -Pedro rogue_pedro AT yahoo DOT com