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- From: johna@poliac.com (John R. Aldrin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Linking 32 bit libs w/Borland 5.0 and maybe even 4.5
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:37:08 GMT
- Organization: Poliac Research
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- On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 06:09:13 GMT, marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold)
- wrote:
-
- >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++.
- >
-
- I am waiting for a respose form them. Since I have been building a
- 16 app w/BC 4.5 using the Graphic Server tools it would seem odd that
- their 32 libs are not compatible w/Borland. Come to think of it, with
- all the problems I had with the GS tool maybe that is not so odd.
-
- >Regards,
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