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Re: writing device drivers with MASM 5.1dir

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From: z_kupkams
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 08:26
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In article <1992Aug30.233223.23333@CS.ORST.EDU>, murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger) writes:
> I am trying to determine if I have enough to write a device driver for OS/2.
> I have MASM 5.1 and it will assemble the sample hrtimer.asm with no problems.
> Although I can find no OS/2 libraries to link it with so I get an unresolved
> reference to DosWrite. I have heard that MSC 5.1 will compile OS/2 1.x code,
> but my MSC is only 5.0. Do I need to get at least 5.1 to make this work? Or
> will I need to get the Toolkit. (I will be getting that pretty soon, but I
> am impatient.)
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Keith
> 
> -- 
>                               ____          _____  ____
> Keith Murray                 /     /___/ /\ \    \ \____    P.O. Box 1889
> murrayk@prism.cs.orst.edu   /___  /   / /__\ \____\ ____\   Corvallis OR 97339
>    the Dodger                  s  o  f  t  w\ a  r  e

	MASM 5.1 comes with os2.lib, you may not have installed the OS/2
Libraries when you installed MASM. Re-install it, and make sure you install
the OS/2 libraries, and headers.  The Doc's should have a chapter on OS/2
if I remember correctly.

	Hope this helps.

        Michael Kupka
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Subject: Re: writing device drivers with MASM 5.1dir
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Date: 1 Sep 92 02:26:05 CST
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