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Compiler & Tools Guide
Compiling
• Compiling Code
• C Implementation
• C++ Implementation
• Language Extensions
• Mixing Languages
• Assembly Language
• Inline Assembler
• Optimizing Code
• Numerics Programming
• Regular Expressions
• Acrtused
• Pragmas
• Precompiled Headers
• Predefined Macros
• Warning Messages
• Error Messages
• Runtime Messages

Linking
• Optlink
• Switches
• Module Definition Files
• Operation and Design
• Error Messages

Win32 Programming
• Win32 Programming

DOS and Win16
Programming
• Memory Models
• 16 Bit Pointer Types
and Type Modifiers
• Handle Pointers
• DOS
• DOS 32 (DOSX)
• Win16
• Win16 DLLs
• Win16 Prolog/Epilog

C/C++ Extensions
• Contract Programming
• __debug statement
• __debug declaration
• Dynamic Profiling
• Embedding C in HTML

Tools
• BCC
• CHMOD
• CL
• COFF2OMF
• COFFIMPLIB
• DMC
• DIFF
• DIFFDIR
• DUMP
• DUMPOBJ
• DUMPEXE
• EXE2BIN
• FLPYIMG
• GREP
• HC
• IMPLIB
• LIB
• LIBUNRES
• MAKE
• MAKEDEP
• ME
• OBJ2ASM
• PATCHOBJ
• RC
• RCC
• SC
• SHELL
• SMAKE
• TOUCH
• UNMANGLE
• WHEREIS

Porting to DMC++
• Switching to DMC++
• from Microsoft
• from Borland
• Porting Guide

COFF2OMF

Convert Object and Lib Files to OMF

 Digital Mars tools all work with the Intel 32 bit OMF object and library file format. Microsoft's 32 bit tools work with Microsoft's own variant of the COFF format. Many such COFF format files can be converted to OMF with the coff2omf program: 
	coff2omf inputfiles...
The input files can be either object files (.obj) or library files (.lib). They are converted in place to OMF.

For example, to convert user32.lib from COFF to OMF: 

	coff2omf user32.lib
The Microsoft COFF format apparently changed with Visual C++ 6.0. To use coff2omf on a .lib file with the newer format, use Microsoft's linker to convert the file to the earlier COFF format: 
	link /lib /convert file.lib
and then use coff2omf on it.