DOS Linker

[Gunther]

Does anyone know of a free, powerful DOS linker? I only have the old TLINK from Borland, which I got when I bought a license of TASM 4.0. But TLINK has quirks.

Gunther

[TimoVJL]

Check Masm32\bin folder for another linker

[Vortex]

Hi Gunther,

Timo is right, it's the old 16-bit MS linker, \masm32\bin\link16.exe

Another alternative is Digital Mars' optlink :

https://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html

https://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

[TouEnMasm]

I am not a user of DOS programs but it seems that JWASM solve the problem compiling in format MZ.
Then he use the normal and actual linker.https://baron-von-riedesel.github.io/JWasm/Html/Manual.html#OUTPUTFORMATPE

[caballero]

alink

[nidud]

I guess TLINK is 16-bit if you plan on using it in DOS.

Otherwise Watcom WLINK is free and so is JWLINK.
I use LINKW (fork of JWLINK) for DOS and 32/64-bit.


# MAKEFILE--
# Makefile for Doszip
#
dz.exe:
    asmc -mz -Fo dz.exe -q -Iinc src\dz.asm
    iddc -ml -r src\res\*.idd
    asmc -Iinc -D__DZ__ src\dz\*.asm
    linkw system dos name dz.dos lib lib\cl.lib file lib\c0l.obj, *.obj
    del *.obj

[Gunther]

Thank you all for the valuable hints.

Check Masm32\bin folder for another linker

Timo, I didn't know that. One is never stop learning.

Another alternative is Digital Mars' optlink :

https://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html

https://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

Erol, is it free?

Gunther

[Vortex]

Hi Gunther,

There are several free downloads available for the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler. Please, read the following license agreement. If you agree click this

https://www.digitalmars.com/download/dmcpp.html

[Gunther]

Erol,

fine. That clears my question. Do you have experience with it? People used to say miraculous things about Digital Mars.

Gunther

[Vortex]

Hi Gunther,

The author of the DM toolset is a very talented coder.

In the past, I used the Digital Mars C\C++ compiler but it lacks the MS COFF support. It produces only OMF modules. The DM linker can process only the same type of object files - OMF format.

Here is quick example linking a Masm object file with the DM linker :

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\masm32\bin\ml /c HelloWorld.asm
\dm\bin\link -ENTRY:_start -SU:WINDOWS -FIXE HelloWorld.obj,HelloWorld.exe

[Gunther]

Thank you Erol for the exampel.

Gunther