Hi,

I am hoping someone here can help me with some questions about "OPTLINK for Win32 Release 7.50B1".

I am trying to use OPTLINK as a drop-in replacement for Borland's 16-bit TLINK (from Borland C++ 5.02), which is now overwhelmed by the size of my Win16 application. I am still using BCC to create the OBJs, and hoping to use OPTLINK to link the app.

I am having a problem linking with the Borland 5.02 libraries:
specifically, OPTLINK complains about:
   N:\bc5\lib\import.lib Offset 02087H Record Type 0088
   Error 1: Previous Definition Different : __GP

Borland's import.lib does contain a number of symbols defined in more than one module (USER and KERNEL in the case of __GP). This does not seem to be a problem for Borland's TLINK, but I could find no OPTLINK option to ignore multiply-defined symbols in libraries. How does one deal with this situation?

Has anyone successfully used OPTLINK to build Win16 apps with the Borland libraries? What are my options to solve this problem?

Thanks for your help,
-- Matt Blais, matt.blais@nadler.com
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You could try pulling one of the __GP's out of one of the libraries.

"Matt Blais" <mblais1@yummage.REMOVE-ME.com> wrote in message news:b3fv83$tr9$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am hoping someone here can help me with some questions about "OPTLINK for Win32 Release 7.50B1".
>
> I am trying to use OPTLINK as a drop-in replacement for Borland's 16-bit TLINK (from Borland C++ 5.02), which is now overwhelmed by the size of my Win16 application. I am still using BCC to create the OBJs, and hoping to use OPTLINK to link the app.
>
> I am having a problem linking with the Borland 5.02 libraries:
> specifically, OPTLINK complains about:
>    N:\bc5\lib\import.lib Offset 02087H Record Type 0088
>    Error 1: Previous Definition Different : __GP
>
> Borland's import.lib does contain a number of symbols defined in more than one module (USER and KERNEL in the case of __GP). This does not seem to be a problem for Borland's TLINK, but I could find no OPTLINK option to
ignore
> multiply-defined symbols in libraries. How does one deal with this situation?
>
> Has anyone successfully used OPTLINK to build Win16 apps with the Borland libraries? What are my options to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> -- Matt Blais, matt.blais@nadler.com
> _____________________________________________________
>
>