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- From: Shalom Reich <sqr1874@acf4.nyu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Bad libraries shipped with MS Visual C++ 4.0???
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:35:06 -0500
- Organization: Bankers Trust Company
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- david goldberg wrote:
- >
- > Several of us at work have recently gone to Microsoft
- > Visual C++ 4.0. One of us was attempting to convert
- > a project from MS VC++ 1.52 to 4.00. He kept getting
- > messages stating that some of the libraries in
- > \msdev\lib were bad (incorrect format). Finally we
- > tried copying over a copy of libraries (GDI32.LIB, etc)
- > from my disk to his. Voila! problem disappears.
- > I use VC 4.0 and I had no problems with it. I received
- one of the earlies CDs for 4.0 (so I would not expect
- that a *later* release got messed up, but . . .).
-
- BTW, VC 1.52 was 16 bit (if I remember correctly) and 4.0
- is 32 bit only. Since you are going for GDI stuff, I believe
- that the parameters will probably have changed . . .
-
- Shalom Reich
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