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reply Darin Peshev <darp usa.net> writes:
Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?
Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?
Regards,
Darin
Jul 02 2001
next sibling parent Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:
Which libraries are you trying to link?

You should be able to use CodeView... Check the compiler options on how
to generate the proper debugging format.
Also, the DMC++ CD-ROM comes with a complete ID(D)E which includes a
debugger...

Jan



Darin Peshev wrote:


 Trying to link some libraries generates:

  Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

 Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?
 Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?
 Regards,
 Darin
Jul 02 2001
prev sibling parent reply "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is corrupted. What
.LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?




The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

    www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

-Walter
Jul 02 2001
parent reply Darin Peshev <darp usa.net> writes:
Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result of
implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm generating
import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get this:

C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit Segmented output

main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is corrupted. What
 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001
parent reply "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
Looks like you're trying to do a JMP to an import. That doesn't work on
Win32 - all imports are done with a layer of indirection. That's why
imported symbols have to be declared with __declspec(dllimport).

Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B41E0B9.DC5D3587 usa.net>...

Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result of
implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm generating
import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get this:

C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit Segmented




main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is corrupted.







 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001
next sibling parent Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:
I guess he need to compile his code with the -WA compiler switch thrown so that
the proper code is being generated for functions that presist in the .DLL's
being used.

Jan



Walter wrote:


 Looks like you're trying to do a JMP to an import. That doesn't work on
 Win32 - all imports are done with a layer of indirection. That's why
 imported symbols have to be declared with __declspec(dllimport).

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B41E0B9.DC5D3587 usa.net>...

Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result of
implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm generating
import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get this:

C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit Segmented




main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is corrupted.







 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001
prev sibling parent reply Darin Peshev <darp usa.net> writes:
I don't think I'm trying to do this. I have small example (few lines) that
contains few calls to .DLL exported functions. I'm compiling this code with
Digital Mars and I'm linking resulting .OBJ file with import library generated
by IMPLIB. Does any of this sound like trying to do JMP to import? My feeling is
that Digital Mars generates near calls (instead of far calls) to functions
supplied by the import library. And because import library is quite big, linker
cannot resolve references even by reordering segments. I've been looking for DM
switch to force far calls for functions in other modules(.obj or .lib) but I was
not able to find any. I'll try to add __declspec(dllimport) to .h files supplied
with .dll and this may be will solve the problem but I don't think that explicit
__declspec(dllimport) is needed in other compilers. Does it make sense to add
new switch to the compiler that will presume __declspec(dllimport) for all
unresolved function refernces during compilation?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Looks like you're trying to do a JMP to an import. That doesn't work on
 Win32 - all imports are done with a layer of indirection. That's why
 imported symbols have to be declared with __declspec(dllimport).

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B41E0B9.DC5D3587 usa.net>...

Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result of
implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm generating
import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get this:

C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit Segmented




main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is corrupted.







 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001
next sibling parent Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:
That's why I wrote to throw the -WA switch for you own code and make sure the
header
files act to it in the right way. The functions in the header file have to be
declared __declspec(dllimport). The -WA switch generates .EXE code that uses a
.DLL....

Jan



Darin Peshev wrote:


 I don't think I'm trying to do this. I have small example (few lines) that
 contains few calls to .DLL exported functions. I'm compiling this code with
 Digital Mars and I'm linking resulting .OBJ file with import library generated
 by IMPLIB. Does any of this sound like trying to do JMP to import? My feeling
is
 that Digital Mars generates near calls (instead of far calls) to functions
 supplied by the import library. And because import library is quite big, linker
 cannot resolve references even by reordering segments. I've been looking for DM
 switch to force far calls for functions in other modules(.obj or .lib) but I
was
 not able to find any. I'll try to add __declspec(dllimport) to .h files
supplied
 with .dll and this may be will solve the problem but I don't think that
explicit
 __declspec(dllimport) is needed in other compilers. Does it make sense to add
 new switch to the compiler that will presume __declspec(dllimport) for all
 unresolved function refernces during compilation?
 Darin

 Walter wrote:


 Looks like you're trying to do a JMP to an import. That doesn't work on
 Win32 - all imports are done with a layer of indirection. That's why
 imported symbols have to be declared with __declspec(dllimport).

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B41E0B9.DC5D3587 usa.net>...

Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result of
implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm generating
import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get this:

C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit Segmented




main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is corrupted.







 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001
prev sibling parent reply "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
Near and far calls? Are you working with 16 bit code or 32 bit code? It's
beginning to sound like you are attempting to mix 16 and 32 bit code, which
will inevitably produce bizarre linker messages.

-Walter

Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B421415.767E170D usa.net>...

I don't think I'm trying to do this. I have small example (few lines) that
contains few calls to .DLL exported functions. I'm compiling this code with
Digital Mars and I'm linking resulting .OBJ file with import library




by IMPLIB. Does any of this sound like trying to do JMP to import? My




that Digital Mars generates near calls (instead of far calls) to functions
supplied by the import library. And because import library is quite big,




cannot resolve references even by reordering segments. I've been looking




switch to force far calls for functions in other modules(.obj or .lib) but




not able to find any. I'll try to add __declspec(dllimport) to .h files




with .dll and this may be will solve the problem but I don't think that




__declspec(dllimport) is needed in other compilers. Does it make sense to




new switch to the compiler that will presume __declspec(dllimport) for all
unresolved function refernces during compilation?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Looks like you're trying to do a JMP to an import. That doesn't work on
 Win32 - all imports are done with a layer of indirection. That's why
 imported symbols have to be declared with __declspec(dllimport).

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B41E0B9.DC5D3587 usa.net>...

Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result










implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm










import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get










C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit










 output

main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is













 What

 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001
parent reply Darin Peshev <darp usa.net> writes:
.DLL that I'm trying to use us 32bit library (PE header contains Flags 210E
which means - executable bacwards 32bit library. Same application works perfect
when compiled and linked with VC++ 6.0). Code that calls functions in the
library is CPP source. With this two things as a start point why do I get this
error message? (See below). My OS is Windows 2000 and I read carefully through
the DM documentation for different options controling compilation and linking.
However I was not able to find anything that leads to :


C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit










 output

main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP









Is it clear this time?
Darin


Walter wrote:


 Near and far calls? Are you working with 16 bit code or 32 bit code? It's
 beginning to sound like you are attempting to mix 16 and 32 bit code, which
 will inevitably produce bizarre linker messages.

 -Walter

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B421415.767E170D usa.net>...

I don't think I'm trying to do this. I have small example (few lines) that
contains few calls to .DLL exported functions. I'm compiling this code with
Digital Mars and I'm linking resulting .OBJ file with import library




by IMPLIB. Does any of this sound like trying to do JMP to import? My




that Digital Mars generates near calls (instead of far calls) to functions
supplied by the import library. And because import library is quite big,




cannot resolve references even by reordering segments. I've been looking




switch to force far calls for functions in other modules(.obj or .lib) but




not able to find any. I'll try to add __declspec(dllimport) to .h files




with .dll and this may be will solve the problem but I don't think that




__declspec(dllimport) is needed in other compilers. Does it make sense to




new switch to the compiler that will presume __declspec(dllimport) for all
unresolved function refernces during compilation?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Looks like you're trying to do a JMP to an import. That doesn't work on
 Win32 - all imports are done with a layer of indirection. That's why
 imported symbols have to be declared with __declspec(dllimport).

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B41E0B9.DC5D3587 usa.net>...

Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result










implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm










import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get










C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit










 output

main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is













 What

 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001
parent Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:
.DEF file:

EXETYPE            NT
SUBSYSTEM      WINDOWS,4.0

As I think you want WinMain as program entry point and not main.

You could also try:
link .../ENTRY:WinMainCRTStartup

Jan



Darin Peshev wrote:


 .DLL that I'm trying to use us 32bit library (PE header contains Flags 210E
 which means - executable bacwards 32bit library. Same application works perfect
 when compiled and linked with VC++ 6.0). Code that calls functions in the
 library is CPP source. With this two things as a start point why do I get this
 error message? (See below). My OS is Windows 2000 and I read carefully through
 the DM documentation for different options controling compilation and linking.
 However I was not able to find anything that leads to :


C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit










 output

main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP









 Is it clear this time?
 Darin

 Walter wrote:


 Near and far calls? Are you working with 16 bit code or 32 bit code? It's
 beginning to sound like you are attempting to mix 16 and 32 bit code, which
 will inevitably produce bizarre linker messages.

 -Walter

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B421415.767E170D usa.net>...

I don't think I'm trying to do this. I have small example (few lines) that
contains few calls to .DLL exported functions. I'm compiling this code with
Digital Mars and I'm linking resulting .OBJ file with import library




by IMPLIB. Does any of this sound like trying to do JMP to import? My




that Digital Mars generates near calls (instead of far calls) to functions
supplied by the import library. And because import library is quite big,




cannot resolve references even by reordering segments. I've been looking




switch to force far calls for functions in other modules(.obj or .lib) but




not able to find any. I'll try to add __declspec(dllimport) to .h files




with .dll and this may be will solve the problem but I don't think that




__declspec(dllimport) is needed in other compilers. Does it make sense to




new switch to the compiler that will presume __declspec(dllimport) for all
unresolved function refernces during compilation?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Looks like you're trying to do a JMP to an import. That doesn't work on
 Win32 - all imports are done with a layer of indirection. That's why
 imported symbols have to be declared with __declspec(dllimport).

 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B41E0B9.DC5D3587 usa.net>...

Hmm, that's strange because this is import library generated as a result










implib. Does this means that implib is buggy? .DLL for which I'm










import library is quite big - 2.7mb. Could this be a problem? I tried to
generate .DEF file out of .DLL but when I try to link with it I get










C:\dm\bin\..\lib\SNN.lib(constart)
 Error 83: Illegal frame on start address
OPTLINK : Warning 174: 32-bit Segments Inappropriate for 16-bit










 output

main.obj(main)
 Error 116: NEAR call to IMPORT at Relative 00013H  from
 Segment _TEXT
 FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 0000
 TARGET = External Symbol ??0QApplication  QAE AAHPAPAD Z (syscall
QApplication::QApplication(int &,char **))
00000H
 FIXUPP Type = 32-bit Conditional JMP

Any ideas?
Darin

Walter wrote:


 Darin Peshev wrote in message <3B4111EB.7BF3DDD2 usa.net>...

Trying to link some libraries generates:

 Warning 140: Library probably needs FIXLIB

Any idea where to find FIXLIB and what does this mean?



 I believe it means that the symbol table in the .LIB file is













 What

 .LIB file is it?


Is there a decent debugger that can debug DigitalMars compiled .EXE?



 The debugger comes on the CD version, available from:

     www.digitalmars.com/shop.html

 -Walter
Jul 03 2001