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From: nbladt@aut.UUCP (Norbert Bladt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Link problems with MS-C 5.1 and MKS (was: Re: MessageBox problem)
Message-ID: <807@aut.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 90 14:03:20 GMT
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Reply-To: bladt@hslrswi.UUCP (Norbert Bladt)
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efowler@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Fowler) writes:

>Netlanders:
>	I have been fighting a losing battle with the MSC 5.1 linker for
>several days now.  I have some windows code that compiles, links, and
[stuff deleted]

>The error returned by the linker is always "Warning:No stack segment",
>followed by:"Unresolved external:", and either 23 or 36 functions.  The
[stuff deleted]

>Some possibly relevant facts: (1) The computer is not on the approved
>hardware list for windows 3.  Just the same, I have been able to run
>windows in Enhanced mode(not standard or real), and all the linking is
>done in DOS/conventional memory.
That shouldn't really matter for linking programs.

>                                   (2) I have the MKS toolkit installed,
>a psuedo-unix shell for PCs.
Do you use the MKS shell at home and not at work ?
I had a lot of problems with accessing environment variables from programs
compiled and linked with MS-C 5.0 if the MKS shell was used.
The placement of environment variables is NON-STANDARD DOS with the
MKS shell (c.f. the special posting of RCS for MKS users in c.b.i.p !).
I did not solve my problems, just stated in the doc that this program
wouldn't run with the MKS shell, that's it.

>                                                                  I
>could fasten a rope around the computer, tie one end around my neck, and
>dive into deep water, but this will still not resolve the problem with
>the linker.
I would try your stuff without the MKS shell, first :-) .

>=Eric Fowler
Norbert Bladt.
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