Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dicomed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!dicomed!papke 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 Article-I.D.: dicomed.626 Posted: Wed Oct 2 08:34:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 05:56:48 EDT References: <127@duvel.UUCP> Reply-To: papke@dicomed.UUCP (Kurt Papke) Organization: DICOMED Corp., Minneapolis Lines: 22 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?"