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Re: Mathlink for MMA3.0 and Borland C++ 4.5

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• Subject: [mg8700] Re: [mg8616] Mathlink for MMA3.0 and Borland C++ 4.5
• From: jpk at max.mpae.gwdg.de
• Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:47:42 -0400
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

> I'm having problems linking the mathlink sample program 'addtwo' with
> Borland C++ compiler v 4.5. BC++ doesn't understand the ML32I1B.LIB file
> that shipped with MMA3.0.
> 
> Therefore I tried to make my own LIB by the statement IMPLIB ML32I1B.LIB
> ML32I1.DLL. However, that failed too. IMPLIB came with an 'exception
> c0000005: Acces violation' error.
> 
> I also tried to do the same thing using the Mathlink for MMA2.2, and
> that worked fine. I therefore suspect BC++ 4.5 and Mathlink for MMA 3.0
> are not compatible (in other words BC++4.5 is too old).
> 
> Do any of you developers know if indeed I should use a newer C-compiler,
> or that I made a terrible mistake ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Yuri Franken
> Eindhoven University of Technology
> 
Hi Yuri,

I am working with Borland C 5.01 and all works fine with MathLink. The
implib of Borland C 5.x works with the 3.0 Mathlink as well as the compiler.
I had found some problems with the Intel optimizing compiler and 
MathLink calls -- thats all.

Hope that helps
  Jens