Re: Linking Microsoft library with Borland

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From: Wolfgang Siebeck
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 06:43

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furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:

>In article <1992Sep4.125646.5789@unislc.uucp> edge@unislc.uucp (Brian Edginton) writes:

[Wants to use MicroSoft libraries with Borland.]

>Unfortunately, while the .OBJ format is compatible with Borland,
>the libraries are not. I ran into this problem a couple of years
>ago and both Borland and Microsoft place dependancies in their
>library format that do not allow the other's linker to make use of
>it. If some clever person has figured a way around this, or if
>Borland and Microsoft have changed their proprietary habits, I
>would be very interested to know as well.

Just an idea: What about extracting the OBJ's from the library with
the LIB by MicroSoft and creating a new library using TLIB? Anyway, I
tried the PCNFS-Toolkit for MicroSoft C with Borland C 2.0, and it
worked without problems.

Wolfgang
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siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)

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