Statically Link with a C LIB

[Rich Brockway]

I have a client who wants to make his product available for use with PowerBASIC for Windows. The outstanding question is can PowerBASIC statically link with a C LIB?

Thanks,

Rich


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[Eric Pearson]

No, LIB files are not a 100% standardized file format. For example, Microsoft C and Borland C use different, non-compatible LIB files.

You'd need to use the header file (usually *.H) not the LIB file, and convert the header syntax to PowerBASIC. It's usually not hard, and you can get help on this BBS.

-- Eric


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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited October 12, 2001).]

[Tom Hanlin]

As Eric says, there is no standard .LIB format. In general, the only
thing you can use a .LIB with is the exact same compiler as produced
it, which is probably going to be a C compiler, as other languages
tend not to support .LIBs these days.

The standard library format these days is the .DLL, or dynamic link
library. Like virtually every other Windows language, the PowerBASIC
for Windows compilers do provide support for DLLs.


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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Rich Brockway]

Originally posted by Eric Pearson:
No, LIB files are not a 100% standardized file format. For example, Microsoft C and Borland C use different, non-compatible LIB files.

You'd need to use the header file (usually *.H) not the LIB file, and convert the header syntax to PowerBASIC. It's usually not hard, and you can get help on this BBS.

-- Eric

Yes, since I use both C++ Builder and "Visual" C++, I am well aware they are not standardized. I was wondering if PowerBASIC supported any format.

Rich

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[This message has been edited by Rich Brockway (edited October 13, 2001).]

[Sven Blumenstein]

Originally posted by Tom Hanlin:
[...]is probably going to be a C compiler, as other languages
tend not to support .LIBs these days.[...]

What about Assembly? MASM for example does support lib's.

What I'd love to see, is a Format, wich let me get rid of dll's. lib support or a new PowerBASIC format (.pib ) would be really nice. Just imagine: an ezgui App w/out ezgui dll...

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Programming with: PB/DLL, MASM, VB, VC++, LCC, VBA, WML

[This message has been edited by Sven Blumenstein (edited October 13, 2001).]

[Michael Mattias]

Real Men and Real Programmers use DLLs.

MCM

[Steve Hutchesson]

Rick,

The problem is that PowerBASIC uses a wider range of data types
than C/C++ so compatibility would be a problem even if PowerBASIC
did support libraries.

The DLL route would bve the easiest way to approach the problem
and your customer could make a useful multilanguage DLL that could
be used in any language that supports the industry standard DLL
format.

The last choice would be to rewrite the library module in PowerBASIC
but this may not suit your customer's requirements.

Regards,

[email protected]

PS : Michael,

I thought REAL men coded in HEX.

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[Lance Edmonds]

Real men use PowerBASIC. End of story.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Michael Mattias]

I thought REAL men coded in HEX

That's true only under MS-DOS.

MCM

[Steve Hutchesson]

Michael,

; D:\MASM32\THEGUN\SETTINGS\Gunstub.exe  96 bytes
  
00000000: 4D 5A 90 00 03 00 00 00 - 04 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00
00000010: B8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000030: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 B8 00 00 00
00000040: 0E 1F BA 0E 00 B4 09 CD - 21 B8 01 4C CD 21 54 68
00000050: 65 47 75 6E 20 69 73 20 - 77 69 6E 33 32 0D 0A 24
00000060:

I still write DOS stub files for 32 bit PE programs in HEX if I
need to run something non standard.

I go half way with Lance with the view that REAL programmers
write in PowerBASIC.

Regards,

[email protected]

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[Borje Hagsten]

Would love to see possibility to use some sort of encrypted include files
in the future. Would enable us to write "commercial" code for PB developers,
without having to use DLL way. "One code - one EXE" is nice, IMHO. Could
mean a whole new industry growing up around PowerBasic compilers..

Hm, so what do real women use..?


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[Michael Mattias]

Hm, so what do real women use..?

Mostly they use Real Men.

[Lance Edmonds]

Hmmm.... what an interesting side-effect.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Peter Manders]

Logically this means that Real Women Basically like Power, half the time.

Peter.


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