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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Compiler Cross-Compatiility?
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 22:40:34 GMT
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- Skye Offerle (gargamel@eskimo.com) wrote:
-
- : I'm ready to move on from the Microsoft Quick C I've had since near
- : its release.
- : I'm interested in Turbo C, because I have some useful libraries coded
- : with it - but what's the likelihood I will be able to port my old
- : routines?
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- If you have the original C source, you can just recompile them.
- If you want to use the LIB files, forget it.
-
- : Are C compiler extensions in such a sorry state they
- : pit one proprietary standard versus another, with no recourse for the
- : programmer?
-
- There's no standard library format, if that's what you mean.
- You can't use MS compiler created LIB files with Borland
- compilers, and vice versa. I've had to redo LIB files to use
- MS SDK DLLs with Borland C++.
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- Scott
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