Re: Using Borland C++ object files in VC++

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Fri, 2 Mar 2007 05:30:10 -0800

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Even if this is / were not the case, object files are never portable

between

compiler versions, and definitely not between compiler vendors, and even if
they were, your object file was not compiled for a win32 subsystem.

Object files does not contain any dos-specific functions, only some
mathematical algorithms are implemented there. I know VC++ dlls can be
imported by Borland using implib, impdef etc, and this proof of the
conversion is why i am hopeful.

This has nothing to do with dos functions or not.
If that object file was compiled under dos, for dos, it is 16 bit code. not
32 bit code.
A 32 bit compiler like VC6 cannot do anything with that code, even if it
could use borland object files, which it can't.

converting a DLL is different from converting an object file. DLLs have a
documented format that is not subject to change. (btw, doesn't implib only
convert the lib file and not the dll itself?).
object files are compiler specific, and the contents of the object files are
not portable between compiler versions.

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