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From: juan@rose.ACA.MCC.COM (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Help: Zortech C++ and SDK 3.0
Summary: You must use Microsoft's linker.
Message-ID: <1671@rose.ACA.MCC.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 90 15:10:36 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.232603.468@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: MCC ACT Program, Austin, TX
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In article <1990Dec20.232603.468@cs.mcgill.ca>, weiren@cs.mcgill.ca (Weiren DING) writes:
> 
> I have both Zortech C++ 2.1 and SDK 3.0 on hand. But I can not make the
> examples of SDK work, by using Zortech compiler.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
> Thnaks in advance.

You must use Microsoft's linker to create a Windows application.  Zortech
states this quite clearly in their (gasp) documentation.  The pre-Windows3
SDK's all included a special liker called link4.  With the new SDK you must
have the linker supplied with Microsoft C 5.1 or later.  This linker is the
one supplied for OS/2 support, and many people have goofed by installing 
the DOS only linker.
To my knowledge, Microsoft doesn't sell this linker separately, which makes
Zortech's position somewhat tenuous.  You can create Windows apps with
Zortech C++, but only if you've bought Microsoft C, or possibly MASM.

Has anyone got a list of linkers which will work, or of the cheapest way
to use the SDK with a non-Microsoft language?  How about Bourland's linker?

John Reynolds
juan@mcc.com