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- From: stevens@longwood.cs.ucf.edu (John Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Novell NLM development
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 08:49:24 -0500
- Organization: University of Central Florida
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- GARY RIDLEY wrote:
- :
- : I am new to this group so please bear with me. I would like to try developing
- : some Novell NLM's and I have been using up to this point Microsoft Visual C++
- : version 1.0. I have read a lot of good things about the new Borland 4.5 C++
- : environment and I am not averse to changing, however nothing I have read
- : indicates whether or not I could develop NLM code and executables(loadables?)
- : on this platform. I will be changing from visual basic to delphi shortly and
- : would prefer to have a unified development environment. Can any of you advise
- : me
- : on the viability of developing NLM's with Borland C++? Would I need only to
- : aquire Novell's SDK and make the Borland aware of it?
-
- Gary,
- There was a company at Novell's technical conference ~2 years ago with a
- linker that would allow you to use either Borland or Microsoft _32bit_
- compilers and produce NLMs. Check with Novell on who that was and how to
- contact them. Otherwise, WATCOM is the only choice.
-
- Hope it helps,
- John S.
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