Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!grouleff From: Morten Grouleff Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Linker program (etc) for Windows 95 / WinNT ? Date: 30 Oct 1996 09:34:34 +0100 Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. of Aarhus Univ. Lines: 52 Sender: grouleff@svale.daimi.aau.dk Message-ID: References: <32769fe4.19406004@news.danadata.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: svale.daimi.aau.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jank@cs.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.40/Emacs 19.33 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:10859 jank@cs.auc.dk (Jan Karlsbjerg) writes: > > Hello everybody > > [...] > 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" That is not what you want. You have to get the "Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0" development environment. It is not included in the Developer Network. The wording "win32sdk" is heavily overloaded... > 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. Pointless. > \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. > [...] Again, you must have "Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0" of the equivalent package from Borland. The README file may be a little imprecise on this point. > - 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) To some extend, they're right. The BETA system for Linux is more complete than its Win32 counterpart. But it is, as always, a matter of taste. Hope this helps, -- mailto:grouleff@daimi.aau.dk (Morten Grouleff)