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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1 and OS/2 2.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.233034.21118@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:30:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.022418.23244@csaadel.adl.csa.oz.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- statters@csaadel.adl.csa.oz.au (Steve Tattersall) writes:
- : I have a problem executing programs written using Borland C++
- : and applications frameworks under WIN-OS2.
- :
- : If the dynamic link option is chosen for the Borland run-time,
- : OWL and class libraries, the programme fails to terminate
- : properly.
- :
- : A GA fault is reported in the run-time DLL and then many errors
- : dialogs appear with random characters in them.
- :
- : All code has been built using windows 3.0 resources and headers.
- :
- : Can anyone shed light on this one? Do I really need windows 3.1
- : in order to run this software (or OS/2 2.1)?
- :
-
- This is a funny old bug. It seems that in Windows 3.0, Mickeysoft screwed
- up in a big way - if you have any code in the DLL terminate routine, you'll
- crash the application when the DLL get's unloaded. Now although you probably
- have no such code in your DLL's, OWL does.
-
- So to answer your question - You do not actually **NEED** windows 3.1 OR
- OS/2 2.1. You can get around it by writing a small app which does nothing but
- load the OWL (and other OWL derived) DLL's, and sits there until you close the
- OS down. This will stop __most__ of the GA's.
-
- I've been developing some Windows Apps (unhappily) for some time now, and
- have just installed 2.1b. 'Tis a wonder to behold ! At last I can reassure
- myself that although I'm writting code which runs in an environment created
- by the very company who ripped me off SOOOO badly for development tools,
- t least I'm developing them in a rich, stable and enjoyable environment
- under OS/2 - and who knows... maybe I'll convert a few customers while I'm
- at it.
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-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-