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- From: gaf@anasazi.com (Guy Finney)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ 7.0 idiotic linking problem (the shame!)
- Organization: Anasazi, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona USA
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:02:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.230221.19262@anasazi.com>
- References: <1993Jan21.212657.4692@anasazi.com>
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- gaf@misty.anasazi.com (Guy Finney - me) writes:
- >
- >Fine, it compiles into hello.obj. But when I try to link it into hello.exe,
- >I get the message "Invalid object module" in reference to hello.obj.
- >Not even one of the Lnnnn message numbers to look up. Hmmphh.
-
- Thanks to all those who suggested there might be some other program
- named link.exe in my PATH prior to the one in my C development directory.
- That was it. This was very annoying. One might be forgiven for thinking
- that Microsoft would have anticipated this and either named their linker
- something else, or at least mentioned in the release notes that they
- overloaded the name link.exe so you could take appropriate action.
-
- Oh well. Another fun DOS development story. I'm glad I don't work
- on DOS for a living.
- --
- Guy Finney "Ah, this is obviously some
- Anasazi, Phoenix AZ new usage of the word 'safe'
- gaf@anasazi.com -or- I was previously unaware of".
- ...!asuvax!anasaz!gaf --- Arthur Dent
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