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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How do I link WITHOUT sharable libraries?
Message-ID: <238@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 23:46:05 GMT
References: <1988Feb27.142802.18581@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <1988Feb27.142802.18581@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, edwest@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Dr. Edmund West) writes:
> 
> I would like to create an EXE file which does NOT use sharable libraries
> like VAXCRTL, LIBRTL, etc. when it executes. Instead I would like the
> routines to be linked directly into the original EXE file. The intent is
> to produce an EXE file which can be run on other cpus without depending
> on that system having the right version of the sharable libraries.
> 
> I used to do this all the time on a DEC-10, but the local VMS gurus don't
> think it can't be done with VMS. My immediate concern is for a C program,
> but the problem could exist with Fortan as well. Thanks.

Have you considered getting new gurus? :-)

Seriously, it's really quite easy.  The C library is available as an object
library as well as a sharable, so link to that and use the /NOSYSSHR qualifier
to link to the object library for all the system and RTL stuff instead of the
usual sharable.

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