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From: speedy@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Linking Turbo Pascal with Microsoft C Library
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.100914.834@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Jun 91 09:09:14 GMT
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In article <744@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>, derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek) writes:
> A893700%CUCSC.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Dominic Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) writes:
> 
>>Does anyone know how to link Turbo Pascal program with Microsoft C
>>Libraries?
> 
>>I recently got a library written in Microsoft C (6.00 I think) and I know
>>to make use of some of the routines in my Turbo Pascal program.  I try to
>>extract the related object modules and $L into the program but it doesn't
>>work.
> 
> It won't. Microsoft C is quite incompatible with TP (IMHO) unless something has
> changed, which I doubt. It seems there's some kind of headers and things at the
> assembly end that aren't allowed by TP with the $L statement. Sorry about being
> vague about this - I don't have the facts to hand - just trust me - they don't
> fit together.
>

:-The reason why they dont fit together is code segment names--Turbos code
segement is called 'CODE' I think TC's is 'DATA' or 'TEXT' or something.
This is also why you cant use the TC library code or any TC code that relies
on it in TP.