Subj : How do you link DLLs?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Ian Hopkins" <ian.hopkins@skautos.com>
Date : Sat Jul 26 2003 01:56 pm

I have written a program which uses the pthreads win32 library.  I now want
to compile a program but I don't know how to include DLLs on the command
line with bcc32.

here is the command I run:

bcc32 -p -Llib server_2.cpp dale.cpp md5.c md5main.c lib/pthreadGC.dll

The first problem is that I have to type "lib/pthreadGC.dll" even though I
have -Llib.

The second problem is that the compiler does NOT like the pthreadGC.dll file
at all:
lib/pthreadGC.dll:
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character 'É' (0x90)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '?' (0x3)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '?' (0x4)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character ' ' (0xff)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character ' ' (0xff)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '?' (0xb8)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '@' (0x40)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2206 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Illegal character '' (0x0)
Error E2228 lib/pthreadGC.dll 1: Too many error or warning messages
*** 26 errors in Compile ***

I am new to the bcc32 compiler so I need a little help to figure this one
out.

.