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General => The Laboratory => Topic started by: Gunther on June 28, 2014, 09:24:31 PM

Title: Library Manager
Post by: Gunther on June 28, 2014, 09:24:31 PM
What is a good library manager for creating own libraries? Is TLIB by Borland sufficient?

Gunther
Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: guga on June 28, 2014, 10:16:03 PM
Gunther what TLib does exactly ?

It creates lib files from obj files ? ONly uses OMF or Coff too ?

It has been years since i last tried Borland.
Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: hutch-- on June 28, 2014, 10:47:04 PM
Gunther,

I would be inclined to stick to the library manager for each object module type, I am less than trusting  in terms of cross compatibility of tools that claim to do many types. In Microsoft COFF modules the 32 bit the LINK options that the old LIB.EXE tool does works fine. Pelle's library manager also works very well.
Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: guga on June 28, 2014, 11:26:24 PM
Steve, i agree. But, it can be usefull sometimes convert the different types of object/lib files. As far i remember, Digital Mars have a tool that can make such conversion from OMF to Coff.
I plan to implement it on RosAsm on a not so near future  :icon_mrgreen:
Also, once i succed to update some functionalities in RosAsm i´ll try to allow it to import, export, convert lib/obj files. (To day, the libscanner in RosAsm can only export obj files from lib files - Coff format)
My idea is make some tools in RosAsm as standalone dlls so others can use them independent of using RosAsm or not.
Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: nidud on June 29, 2014, 12:32:15 AM
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Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: Vortex on June 29, 2014, 04:10:25 AM
Pelle's library manager Polib.exe is a good one. Agner Fog's objconv.exe can convert from OMF to COFF and COFF to OMF.
Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: Gunther on June 30, 2014, 12:10:03 AM
Thank you all for the answers.  :t I've now input for building libraries. 

Gunther
Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: Vortex on June 30, 2014, 03:37:22 AM
Digital Mars' librarian is lib.exe supporting only the OMF format.
Title: Re: Library Manager
Post by: Gunther on June 30, 2014, 03:39:37 AM
Erol,

Quote from: Vortex on June 30, 2014, 03:37:22 AM
Digital Mars' librarian is lib.exe supporting only the OMF format.

thank you for the information.

Gunther