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In article <Bu59Cu.BLz@infoac.rmi.de> siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck) writes:
>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
>--
>siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
>

Extractions do work, so long as the functions in question do mot
make any calls, or have dependancies upon Microsoft specific items
in any of the standard libraries. I have done this too on occasion
with ancillary libraries and it does work some of the time.

Paul

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