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From: dan@rose3.UUCP (Dan Messinger)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re Microsoft vs. Lattice
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 23:43:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 23:43:13 1985
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caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)  writes

>The object file formats are NOT compatible between Xenix and DOS.  The
>.o files used on Xenix cannot be linked by the DOS linker, and DOS style
>.obj files don't mix with ld.  It also appears impossible to take files
>from the Xenix libraries to fill in for missing routines in the DOS
>cross libraries.

Yes and no.  My Xenix came with a complete DOS cross-development package.
Works real slick.  Just add a -dos to the cc command, and the result is
a .exe file.  A different set of libraries are used in this case.  These
files ARE compatable with DOS link.  I was forced to find out.  My MSC
distribution floppy had a hard error in the middle of the library.
I took the entire cross-development library from Xenix and moved it
to a DOS system.  And the .o files from cc -dos are link compatible, too.
But don't forget to rename them to .obj files after moving them to a
DOS system.

Dan Messinger
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