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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Using Zortech C++ and Turbo C++ with MS Windows SDK
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.225055.13037@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 22:50:55 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.062543.10383@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <36200001@hprpcd.HP.COM>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <36200001@hprpcd.HP.COM> bruce@hprpcd.HP.COM (Bruce Smith) writes:
># B - Turbo C++ 1.0:
># 
># TC++ does not seem to produce the right object files.  The MS linker gives a 
># warning that "The program does not have a starting address". Did anybody out 
># there have any success?
>
>Does no response to this note mean that noone else has tried using Turbo C++
>with the Windows SDK?  I know I failed at it.  Any ideas?
>

I ahven't actually tried it but remember that the Windows calls expect the
"Pascal" calling convention. (Look in windows.h. All the prototypes are
"extern PASCAL xxxx") I am positive that TC cannot generate the proper code.

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