Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Libraries! Where are the libraries!
Message-ID: <3379@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 16:46:34 GMT
References: <24927@cca.CCA.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <24927@cca.CCA.COM> jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein) writes:
>
>I've been programming in C on the Amiga for a few months now. I've just
>reached the point where I need access to the intuition and graphics libraries
>and I can't find them. They're not on the Manx 3.4 disks, nor are they on

As the commercial says, "It's in there!"

intuition.library and graphics.library are both in the Kickstart ROM.
(as is timer.device, and ...)

You need to get the Rom Kernal Manuals for docs on the libraries.
But basically, they are not object libraries, but rather
Exec libraries, which sit in RAM or ROM, and are called
by application programs through a defined calling convention.

Only the stub necessary to call the functions are linked to
your programs.  There should be a link library on your disk
that contain these in some form.

BTW, cast everything to LONG or use the 32 bit option if you
want to start calling Amiga functions.

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