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- From: marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold)
- Subject: Re: Linking 32 bit libs w/Borland 5.0 and maybe even 4.5
- Message-ID: <marnoldDoyrrD.EA4@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 06:09:13 GMT
- Sender: marnold@netcom12.netcom.com
-
- johna@poliac.com (John R. Aldrin) writes:
-
- >Hi,
-
- >I tried to build a 32 bit application that used the Graphics Server
- >Control. When I attempted to link the 32 bit libs I got an error
- >message indicating the file was not in the correct format (I tried
- >this over the weekend and I forget exactly what the error message was,
- >it seemed to dislike the file from the first byte). I tried examing
- >the file w/the TLIB application from both the 5.0 and 4.5 versions and
- >was unable to list the contents of the libraries.
-
- >As a test I built one of the example 32 bit apps that comes with GS
- >using MSVC 4.0 and everything worked okay. Anyone know what the
- >problem is w/Borland??
-
- Perhaps that you were trying to use Microsoft libraries with it?
- This would explain whey they worked fine with Visual C++.
-
- Microsoft's and Borland's .LIB formats are not the same. Feeding
- the Borland linker (or TLIB) a Microsoft-produced library is just
- about as good as feeding it a text file containing a letter to your
- mother. It's not going to work.
-
- Check with your "Graphics Server Control" library vendor to see if
- they support Borland C++.
-
- Regards,
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