Digital Mars - c++.windows.32-bits - Sources of MS Link (Converting MS LIBS)

↑ ↓ ← → John Reimer <jjreimer telus.net> writes:

A past post indicated that versions of MS link.exe could be found in MS 
SDK.  This linker is apparently critical for converting new COFF to old 
COFF before we can finally convert the lib to OMF for Digitalmars tools 
(using COFF2OMF).

The most recent MS SDK for XP no longer seems to have the linker. 
According to other sources, this linker also can be found in the WIN98 
DDK and other versions of the MS DDK.  Unfortunately none of the DDK's 
are freely available anymore (so far as I could tell).

Does anyone know of any other valid source for the linker?

Thanks,

John

Aug 27 2003

↑ ↓ ← → Andy C <Andy_member pathlink.com> writes:

I just got the latest version of DDK and I have the same problem.  
Does anyone know where I can get the correct version of Link.EXE?
Thanks!
Andy

In article <bij9uh$1a23$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John Reimer says...
A past post indicated that versions of MS link.exe could be found in MS 
SDK.  This linker is apparently critical for converting new COFF to old 
COFF before we can finally convert the lib to OMF for Digitalmars tools 
(using COFF2OMF).

The most recent MS SDK for XP no longer seems to have the linker. 
According to other sources, this linker also can be found in the WIN98 
DDK and other versions of the MS DDK.  Unfortunately none of the DDK's 
are freely available anymore (so far as I could tell).

Does anyone know of any other valid source for the linker?

Thanks,

John

Oct 20 2003

↑ ↓ ← → Andy C <Andy_member pathlink.com> writes:

I just got the latest version of DDK and I have the same problem.  
Does anyone know where I can get the correct version of Link.EXE?
Thanks!
Andy

In article <bij9uh$1a23$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John Reimer says...
A past post indicated that versions of MS link.exe could be found in MS 
SDK.  This linker is apparently critical for converting new COFF to old 
COFF before we can finally convert the lib to OMF for Digitalmars tools 
(using COFF2OMF).

The most recent MS SDK for XP no longer seems to have the linker. 
According to other sources, this linker also can be found in the WIN98 
DDK and other versions of the MS DDK.  Unfortunately none of the DDK's 
are freely available anymore (so far as I could tell).

Does anyone know of any other valid source for the linker?

Thanks,

John

Oct 20 2003

↑ ↓ ← → Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson <ingi telia.com> writes:

Andy C wrote:
 I just got the latest version of DDK and I have the same problem.  
 Does anyone know where I can get the correct version of Link.EXE?
 Thanks!
 Andy
 
 In article <bij9uh$1a23$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John Reimer says...
 
A past post indicated that versions of MS link.exe could be found in MS 
SDK.  This linker is apparently critical for converting new COFF to old 
COFF before we can finally convert the lib to OMF for Digitalmars tools 
(using COFF2OMF).

The most recent MS SDK for XP no longer seems to have the linker. 
According to other sources, this linker also can be found in the WIN98 
DDK and other versions of the MS DDK.  Unfortunately none of the DDK's 
are freely available anymore (so far as I could tell).

Does anyone know of any other valid source for the linker?

Thanks,

John




There is an issue with the coff2omf utility that it fails to generate a 
complete 'uuid.lib'.

When you try to link with it you get unresolved symbols, like when 
trying to link the 'notebook' sample from wxWindows-2.4.2
 make -f makefile.sc


notebook.exe, notebook, ..\..\lib\ wx_sc.lib  png_sc tiff_sc jpeg_sc 
zlib_sc shell32_sc wsock32_sc
  winmm32_sc advapi32 comctl32 comdlg32 gc gdi32 kernel32 uuid ole32 
oleaut32 snn
  user32
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(droptgt)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IDropTarget
..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(droptgt)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IUnknown
..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(dataobj)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IDataObject
..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(dataobj)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IEnumFORMATETC

--- errorlevel 4

Hopefully someone will someday do:
a) fix the 'coff2omf' utility
b) change the linker so it will be able to link with native MS SDK Libs
c) provide an alternative linker (see modified 'wlink' (OpenWatcom 
linker) at Meerwald's site http://cmeerw.org/prog/dm/)

regards,

- Ingi

Oct 20 2003

↑ ↓ ← → Christof Meerwald <cmeerw web.de> writes:

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:40:07 +0200, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote:
 c) provide an alternative linker (see modified 'wlink' (OpenWatcom 
 linker) at Meerwald's site http://cmeerw.org/prog/dm/)


My modified version of the Open Watcom linker (which can directly use
Microsoft's COFF libraries) should be fully useable with DMC++. I have just
updated the web page at http://cmeerw.org/prog/owtools/ (and uploaded new
exe-files).

The only thing left to do is to better integrate it into DMC++ (maybe parse
the sc.ini file and provide a modified dmc.exe/sc.exe that can also invoke
wlink instead of DMC's optlink).


bye, Christof

-- 
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mailto cmeerw at web.de

...and what have you contributed to the Net?

Oct 21 2003

↑ ↓ ← → John Reimer <jjreimer telus.net> writes:

Christof Meerwald wrote:
 On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:40:07 +0200, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote:
 
c) provide an alternative linker (see modified 'wlink' (OpenWatcom 
linker) at Meerwald's site http://cmeerw.org/prog/dm/)


 
 My modified version of the Open Watcom linker (which can directly use
 Microsoft's COFF libraries) should be fully useable with DMC++. I have just
 updated the web page at http://cmeerw.org/prog/owtools/ (and uploaded new
 exe-files).
 
 The only thing left to do is to better integrate it into DMC++ (maybe parse
 the sc.ini file and provide a modified dmc.exe/sc.exe that can also invoke
 wlink instead of DMC's optlink).
 
 
 bye, Christof
 


Thanks, I may give it a try.  I think I may have  seen a reference to 
this linker before.  Has anybody tried this modified linker with dmc?

Later,

John

Oct 22 2003

↑ ↓ ← → "Christian Kaiser" <chk online.de> writes:

Well if only the IIDs are unknown, you can supply them yourself in your
code, they are documented (or can be found on the net).

Christian

"Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson" <ingi telia.com> wrote in message
news:bn1gno$1fa5$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Andy C wrote:
 I just got the latest version of DDK and I have the same problem.
 Does anyone know where I can get the correct version of Link.EXE?
 Thanks!
 Andy

 In article <bij9uh$1a23$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John Reimer says...

A past post indicated that versions of MS link.exe could be found in MS
SDK.  This linker is apparently critical for converting new COFF to old
COFF before we can finally convert the lib to OMF for Digitalmars tools
(using COFF2OMF).

The most recent MS SDK for XP no longer seems to have the linker.
According to other sources, this linker also can be found in the WIN98
DDK and other versions of the MS DDK.  Unfortunately none of the DDK's
are freely available anymore (so far as I could tell).

Does anyone know of any other valid source for the linker?

Thanks,

John




 There is an issue with the coff2omf utility that it fails to generate a
 complete 'uuid.lib'.

 When you try to link with it you get unresolved symbols, like when
 trying to link the 'notebook' sample from wxWindows-2.4.2
  > make -f makefile.sc
 link  /DELEXECUTABLE /RC -L/exet:nt/su:windows notebook.obj ,
 notebook.exe, notebook, ..\..\lib\ wx_sc.lib  png_sc tiff_sc jpeg_sc
 zlib_sc shell32_sc wsock32_sc
   winmm32_sc advapi32 comctl32 comdlg32 gc gdi32 kernel32 uuid ole32
 oleaut32 snn
   user32
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 ..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(droptgt)
   Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IDropTarget
 ..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(droptgt)
   Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IUnknown
 ..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(dataobj)
   Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IDataObject
 ..\..\lib\wx_sc.lib(dataobj)
   Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IEnumFORMATETC

 --- errorlevel 4

 Hopefully someone will someday do:
 a) fix the 'coff2omf' utility
 b) change the linker so it will be able to link with native MS SDK Libs
 c) provide an alternative linker (see modified 'wlink' (OpenWatcom
 linker) at Meerwald's site http://cmeerw.org/prog/dm/)

 regards,

 - Ingi

Nov 02 2003