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From: bl227 AT cleveland DOT Freenet DOT Edu (Richard Smol)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: MSDOS-compatibility (OBJ-files etc.)
Date: 2 May 1996 18:29:52 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Hello,

As a Borland user I decided to give djgpp a chance. I really like it,
especially since there is a TurboVisio-like IDE for it now (though
I really miss the online help... I guess you can't have it all.)

Now I'd really like to be able to use my C++ programs with other 
programs/languages and one way of doing it is to define an OBJ-file,
that you link with the other files.

Since C++ uses unix-like .o file this is not possible though.

Is there a way to create Microsoft-compatible .OBJ file with djgpp?
I also have no idea how djgpp's protected mode would conflict with
real-mode programs then. To be honest, this DPMI-stuff still baffles me
(no modes? hmmm...). I also dislike having to use some sort of
DPMI-manager all the time... can't djgpp be used to use (16 bit) real-mode
programs as well? That would be handy in terms of MSDOS-compati-
bility. 

Just wondering.

Greetz,

RS