🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan21.212657.4692@anasazi.com> gaf@misty.anasazi.com (Guy Finney) writes:
>
>Okay, so I haven't done any C development on DOS for some years.  My job is
>to write C on Unix, and I only recently got the bug for doing Windows
>development at home.
>
>So I got me the shiny new C/C++ 7.0, installed it per the instructions,
>and now find I can't link the simplest program (hello.c):
>
>	#include <stdio.h>
>	main() {
>		printf("Hello world\n");
>	}
>
>I compile it with the following command.  Yes, I want the large model.
>
>	cl /AL /c hello.c
>
>Fine, it compiles into hello.obj.  But when I try to link it into hello.exe,
>I get the message "Invalid object module" in reference to hello.obj.
>Not even one of the Lnnnn message numbers to look up.  Hmmphh.
>
>Geez, I'm not a total idiot, but what the heck is this all about?  Am I
>missing some secret option to the linker, compiler, or what?  Why isn't
>this just as straightforward as it should be?  Any help will be appreciated,
>as this is going to be an expensive doorstop without the ability to link
>object modules together into a single executable.
>-- 


You probably have another linker (LINK.EXE) file on your PATH
other then the linker supplied with the package. Find it and
get rid of it.


Dov