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From: papke@dicomed.UUCP (Kurt Papke)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Needed info on DOS library format
Message-ID: <626@dicomed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 08:34:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 08:34:07 1985
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In article <127@duvel.UUCP> sater@duvel.UUCP (Hans van Staveren) writes:
>We recently acquired some packages like MS-windows and GEM for the
>PC/AT, which are accompanied by lots of libraries, for DOS.
>
>Since I would dearly like to do development under Xenix, I would
>be glad if I could convert those libraries to Xenix format.
>
How about using a DOS librarian (Microsoft's for instance) to extract the
object modules from the library, then transporting the individual object
modules to the Xenix system??  It would be cumbersome to keep all the object
files around, but this approach does work -- I have done it with modules
from the Microsoft 3.0 C compiler.

Be wary of doing cross development on Xenix.  I gave up on this a couple of
days ago.  Large model support is really buggy.  I also found that the
Microsoft 3.0 DOS compiler produced far better code than the Xenix cross
compiler, so you will be paying a substantial performance penaly for
cross-development.

	Kurt

"Are Xenix and Xerox the only two words that begin and end with an X?"