[clean-list] htoclean sorrows

[Matthew Bromberg]

It could well be in the manual.  I've been reading so many different 
manuals recently, it's hard to keep track of what I've read.
I seem to recall reading that it was unsupported for windows machines, 
but I tried it anyway in the hopes that the code was 'ahead'
of the manual somehow.


Diederik van Arkel wrote:
> On May 30, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Matthew Bromberg wrote:
>
>> I got things to link and to work correctly using the little C program 
>> that you kindly provided that uses microsofts linker.  I made some 
>> minor adjustments to it, in particular the /NODEFAULTLIB:libc option 
>> was added and I forced it to actually print out the linker command to 
>> a logfile for debugging purposes.  The final step to success was to 
>> include a static link library for the dll as an external object 
>> file.  Including it as a static library in Projects options does not 
>> appear to add any library names to the link caller, thus forcing me 
>> to use this hack.  Have you gotten the 64 bit version to work? (not 
>> that I need this trouble just yet.)
>>
>
> The objects referred to as static libraries in the project options are 
> libraries of Clean modules and not of arbitrary object modules.
> I don't think I ever finished support for actually building these 
> static libraries in the IDE so the concept of static clean libraries is
> currently more or less orphaned. I think I documented this status for 
> static libraries in the IDE manual but I could be misremembering.
>
> Regards,
>
> Diederik van Arkel
>