PB3.5 under XP

[Tom Kuurstra]

Hi people,

I've noticed the following: an EXE compiled under a DOS box
(using COMMAND.COM, not CMD.EXE) in XP-pro results in a different
exe than a compile under Win98 DOS (real-mode). I have PB 3.5 on
my machine which means that i need at least 1 FAT partition. I've
been messing around with this to see if PB 3.5 can safely be run from
XP-pro (meaning, produce good EXE's) so i can convert to NTFS.
I compared the 2 exe's using FC.exe /B. Their size is the same but
the contents are slightly different. Anybody have any comments/tips
on this? Am i best of using my Win98 DOS bootflop or can i produce
PB 3.5 exe's in a XP-pro DOS box? thanx for anything on this.

Tom Kuurstra

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[keith shelton]

I use pb3.5 under XP all the time. The only problem I have had is that
column 62 will hang and then skip to column 64 in the IDE. I think
this is because of a video driver problem. I am running a 1ghz
AMD Duron with 256mb ram. The system was put together by SYSTEMAX
and it has a few problems. This is because of poor selection of the
components in the system. PB is working just fine. Programs I
compile on XP work on WIN98, ME, 95, and Dos.
Keith Shelton

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[Lance Edmonds]

The differences have nothing to do with the platform as such... they are simply uninitialized data and/or padding bytes added for block alignment purposes, etc.

IOW, there's nothing at all to be concerned with.

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PowerBASIC Support
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[Barry Erick]

I have pb35 under Xp with no problems so far that are different than
98.

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[Roger Garstang]

I only have one problem with PB in XP Pro. I just
purchased PB 3.5, and will try to compile with it and
see if there are problems. But, with PB/DOS 3.2 I seem to
get errors when running the exe's on a XP Pro system
at work with a 2Ghz Intel chip...but they run fine on
a system configured the exact same way but with an AMD
1.2Ghz. My code traps errors and it just gives an Error
5 which could be anything. The programs work excellent
on the other XP system and have on every system from DOS 3
to Win98 SE. Any suggestions?

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[Tom Hanlin]

Knowing the error number is good but, what you really need to do is
show where the error occurs in your code.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff