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Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ?

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On 8/7/2018 11:32 AM, Paul S. Person wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 14:12:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, OW is sadly getting out of date.
> 
> While I can understand this viewpoint,
> I don't see that OW has any obligation to support vendor-specific APIs
> at all
> except, of course, by being able to link to their libraries -- that
> is, to resolve any calling convention issues.
> 
> The commercial product was, IIRC, in direct competition with the
> Microsoft compilers, and so had some reason to support
> Microsoft-specific APIs. But OW does not, IMHO, beyond what I said
> above.
> 
> Have you tried linking with the libraries listed in the web page you
> cited? If they are (as I suspect) used to link to DLLs, have you tried
> generaing equivalent libraries with wlib (or wlink? it's been so long
> since I did anything like this that I have forgotten), which would use
> the same "decoration" as the OW compiler/linker?

BTW, Simply Fortran uses gfortran and gcc and supports _bstr_t calls. 
We will be evaluating it soon when we get some breathing room.
     http://simplyfortran.com/

We also need the significantly improved math code.

Thanks,
Lynn

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is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-08-02 16:29 -0500
  Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-08-03 11:15 -0500
  Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2018-08-03 09:18 -0700
    Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-08-03 14:05 -0500
      Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2018-08-04 09:31 -0700
  Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2018-08-03 20:39 +0200
    Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2018-08-04 09:33 -0700
      Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2018-08-05 01:34 +0000
        Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-08-06 14:12 -0500
          Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2018-08-07 09:32 -0700
            Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-08-07 12:41 -0500
            Re: is _bstr_t not defined in Watcom ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-08-07 12:43 -0500

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