• Jesse H. (3/3) Jun 12 2006 I made a dll in dmc and tested it dmc. Everything is ok. I need to use t...
• Scott Michel (10/13) Jun 13 2006 The answer is not "ABI" but file format. It's not necessarily corrupt;

Jesse H. <Jesse_member pathlink.com> writes:

I made a dll in dmc and tested it dmc. Everything is ok. I need to use this dll
in VC++, but I got a linking error "fatal error LNK1136: invalid or corrupt
file". Can anyone help? TIA.

Scott Michel <scottm aero.org> writes:

Jesse H. wrote:
 I made a dll in dmc and tested it dmc. Everything is ok. I need to use this dll
 in VC++, but I got a linking error "fatal error LNK1136: invalid or corrupt
 file". Can anyone help? TIA.

The answer is not "ABI" but file format. It's not necessarily corrupt;
DMARS uses the (older) OMF object file format and produces output files
that have OMF symbol information.

That said, though, a DLL is a DLL is a DLL under Win32, irrespective of
the object file format. So you shouldn't have a problem loading and
executing the DLL in a program.

If you're linking using the import library (which you **should** be),
it's possible that the newer MS linkers can't handle reading OMF-style
import libraries. If you're linking using the DLL, well, you shouldn't.