sater@duvel.UUCP (Hans van Staveren) (09/28/85)
We recently acquired some packages like MS-windows and GEM for the PC/AT, which are accompanied by lots of libraries, for DOS. Since I would dearly like to do development under Xenix, I would be glad if I could convert those libraries to Xenix format. If I copy one of them to Xenix and apply the file-command to it, it is recognized as a DOS-library so some support is there, but I looked in vain for some command like arcv that would convert it to the format I want. Does anyone have such a program? If not could someone supply me with information about the format? I can figure it out by myself if I try hard enough, but my mind is not set for cryptology at the moment. As they say, thanks in advance, -- Hans van Staveren, | mcvax!philmds!sater Philips I&E, Eindhoven, Holland | sater@philmds.UUCP "there won't be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne" Kurt Vonnegut, intro to Slaughterhouse-Five
papke@dicomed.UUCP (Kurt Papke) (10/02/85)
In article <127@duvel.UUCP> sater@duvel.UUCP (Hans van Staveren) writes: >We recently acquired some packages like MS-windows and GEM for the >PC/AT, which are accompanied by lots of libraries, for DOS. > >Since I would dearly like to do development under Xenix, I would >be glad if I could convert those libraries to Xenix format. > How about using a DOS librarian (Microsoft's for instance) to extract the object modules from the library, then transporting the individual object modules to the Xenix system?? It would be cumbersome to keep all the object files around, but this approach does work -- I have done it with modules from the Microsoft 3.0 C compiler. Be wary of doing cross development on Xenix. I gave up on this a couple of days ago. Large model support is really buggy. I also found that the Microsoft 3.0 DOS compiler produced far better code than the Xenix cross compiler, so you will be paying a substantial performance penaly for cross-development. Kurt "Are Xenix and Xerox the only two words that begin and end with an X?"