[Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -lxyz.dll

2009-04-02 Thread lostgallifreyan
Extra point: Actual TCC error is given literally as tcc: cannot find -lLua.dll If I am being equally literal, I infer that maybe TCC is parsing it strangely and actually thinks that not only is the -l switch an instruction to link some file, but also, -l is taken literally as a prefix to as

Re: [Tinycc-devel] Newcomer to TCC (and C) with a couple of questions..

2009-04-02 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
lostgallifreyan lostgallifre...@gmail.com writes: Do the required deletions of device contexts (to spare GDI resources) get done by code compiled by TCC, or do I have to do this explicitly, as I do in wxLua, for example? AFAIK, TCC does not have any specific support for Windows GDI and does

Re: [Tinycc-devel] Newcomer to TCC (and C) with a couple ofquestions..

2009-04-02 Thread lostgallifreyan
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo k...@iki.fi wrote: (02/04/2009 09:17) lostgallifreyan lostgallifre...@gmail.com writes: Do the required deletions of device contexts (to spare GDI resources) get done by code compiled by TCC, or do I have to do this explicitly, as I do in wxLua, for example? AFAIK,

Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -lxyz.dll

2009-04-02 Thread grischka
lostgallifreyan wrote: Extra point: Actual TCC error is given literally as tcc: cannot find -lLua.dll Actually there is the hello_dll example that you should try first to see how linking with a DLL works. === To clarify: TCC (like most other compiler on windows except GCC) cannot link DLL's

Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -lxyz.dll

2009-04-02 Thread lostgallifreyan
grischka gris...@gmx.de wrote: (02/04/2009 13:05) lostgallifreyan wrote: Extra point: Actual TCC error is given literally as tcc: cannot find -lLua.dll Actually there is the hello_dll example that you should try first to see how linking with a DLL works. === To clarify: TCC (like most

Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -lxyz.dll

2009-04-02 Thread lostgallifreyan
grischka gris...@gmx.de wrote: (02/04/2009 13:05) Tip: There is the entire Win32-API in a single .hlp file available on the LCC-WIN32 site: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/lcc-win32/win32hlp.exe Nice one. Thanks. Just what I want. Site seems to be down at

Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -lxyz.dll

2009-04-02 Thread lostgallifreyan
Ok, I think I found the answer myself after all. For those who need to know, here it is: (I hope that a mailing list archive stores this so others have an easier time than I did.) This method was prepared for TCC v0.9.24. Make this DOS batch file: @ECHO OFF SET P=C:\lua-5.1.4 IF NOT EXIST

Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -lxyz.dll

2009-04-02 Thread lostgallifreyan
grischka gris...@gmx.de wrote: (03/04/2009 00:31) lostgallifreyan wrote: (Some explicit DLL-making and linking command examples in TCC's tcc-doc.html 'Quick Start' section would be nice). Well, it's in docs/readme.txt. That only works if the .def file exists, my problem was I couldn't