Watcom C

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:17:12PM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote: The problem isn't so much generating code, as linking it into .DLL files. I burned off a *lot* of brain cells writing a linking loader for Win16 "NE" format .DLL files (ooh I hate Microsoft *SO MUCH*), and I'm really not excited about the idea of starting from scratch and writing an ELF loader too, just to use GCC output. Although in the long run that may be necessary. Anyway, all of the good ol' LINK/TLINK/WLINK linkers from Win16 days will generate these files OK, but normally they'll *also* link in a startup module which makes a bunch of Win16 calls before calling the user's LibMain() routine. Faking those Win16 entry points is a pain, but figuring out the undocumented guts of the respective C libraries and writing a replacement startup module for each one, just for running under E11, would be even more of a pain.

One of these days! John Wilson D Bit