Re: Problems Linking With DOS 4GL
In article <memo.858310@cix.compulink.co.uk>, lsystemsb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Langdon Systems) writes: > > > I wonder if anyone can help with the following problem. > We are currently in the middle of porting our applications > to Informix 4GL 1.10.06c for DOS. Surprisingly until > yesterday things have been going ok, then a problem occured > with the Microsoft C linker we are using. Our application > contains a large number of screens which, since they are > all inter-linked are all part of the same EXE. Unfortunately > the linker has run out of relocation entries (>32k) and falls > over with a fatal error, its just not up to the job. There is > an option /EXEPACK which will increase the number of entries > to 512k, but this does not work with the Dos Extender that > Informix use. > > Can anyone suggest an alternative linker which would resolve > this problem. We need a workaround very quickly as our project > deadlines are rapidy approaching! Any help appreciated. > > Thanks In Advance > > David Heydon. Version confusion. I have what I thought was the most recent version for DOS 1.10.06E. You are using version "C". Are you using an older version? Also I had problems using version 6.0 of Microsoft. I got version 5.1 which cleared up a lot of problems. Also, I am not using this product anymore. It's a dog on the PC. There are numerous bugs and unexplained crashes. In addition you cannot use temporary tables. If you create and drop a temporary table a number of times it will crash. When ever it crashes your tables are left in a corrupt state and you have to run bcheck. Sometimes you may have to completely rebuild your database. You can use permanent tables instead of temporary but your system will crash for some other unknown reason and your "permanent temporary tables" are left in a garbage state. This version should really come with a "severe warning" that using it will cause extreme emotional stress. Michael J. Kuhn Consultant phone:410-254-7060 Email: rhlab!kuhn@uunet.uu.net or uunet!rhlab!kuhn c/o Baltimore Rh Typing Laboratory, Inc. phone:410-225-9595