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From: jank@cs.auc.dk (Jan Karlsbjerg)
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Subject: Linker program (etc) for Windows 95 / WinNT ?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 00:49:12 GMT
Organization: Aalborg Universitet
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Hello everybody

From the university (Aalborg University, Denmark) I have a student
license for the Mjølner Beta system, and I would like very much to use
it at home, where I'm running Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 (both are
US versions).

I turn to the file \beta\doc\r4.0\faq\beta-language-faq.html which
says that I have to obtain an additional set of programming utilities
to actually produce a running program: an assembler, a linker and a
make utility - plus some C libraries.

But I find the instructions incomplete to say the least. :-/

I have access to a lot of Microsoft Developer Network discs, so I
chose the recomended Microsoft environment over the Borland
environment.

I have in front of me the following CD-ROM:
"Win32 SDK (for Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation 3.51 - US),
July, 1996"

I have copied this entire CD-ROM to my harddisk, and I have run a
SETUP from this copy, choosing the "full installation" option. This
way I have every bit of information from that disc at least once, most
of it twice.

\beta\doc\r4.0\faq\beta-language-faq.html says that:

ML.EXE, MASM386.EXE, EDITBIN.EXE, and LINK.EXE are included in the
Microsoft WIN32SDK.

But I'm unable to find these files. When searching for the files, I
get these results:
*ml*.exe shows no relevant matches.
*masm*.* show no relevant matches.
*edit*bin*.* show no relevant matches.
*link*.exe shows only one potentially relevant match:
\win32sdk\mstools\bin\winnt\ppc (meaning the installation directory
for the SDK for Windows NT for the Power PC platform)
*nmake*.exe has a similar match (in the same Power PC directory)

In all of the above cases I have searched the entire system (all local
harddrives), so I would have found the files even if the setup-program
installed them in c:\WinNT\system32 or some place like that.


Questions for Mjølner and any other informed sources out there:

- Am I doing something wrong?
- Is my copy of the Win32sdk too recent to comply with the FAQ?
- What does "C libraries" mean exactly (what files should be copied)?
- Can we PLEASE have some more specific instructions for the
installation of Beta on the Windows platform ?!?
- Please do not revert to the inane standard answer that I should
install and setup Linux just to use Beta!! (We've been getting this
advice from the student-helpers at the univercity)


Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!


Kind regards from Denmark
Jan Karlsbjerg, jank@cs.auc.dk