Borland C++ 5 patch 1 and wine

[Charlie Gibbs]

In article <97ds05$kii$1 at s1.read.news.oleane.net> Jean-
Francois.MorcilloREMOVEME at beemind.com (Jean-Francois.MorcilloREMOVEME)
writes:

>After reading this article, I'm not sure it is the same problem...
>Could you give me more details ?

For what it's worth, I've had the same problem.  I don't believe in
IDEs - I work from makefiles - but the linker hangs for me as well.
Even if you just give Wine a command line running ILINK32 directly,
it'll hang, unless you give it bad command-line parameters, in which
case it'll stay alive long enough to spit out an error message and
quit.  Otherwise, it'll sit there consuming 100% CPU until you kill
Wine.

The problem occurs with the linker that came with my BCB4, as well
as the one that came in the BCB5 free download from Borland.  It
happens on all versions of Wine that I've tried, including 20010216.
At http://www.winehq.com there's a list of programs that have been
tested with Wine; this list contains a couple of entries for BCB.
Like me, they indicate that everything works well except the linker,
which hangs.

Someday when I have lots of spare time (ha!) I'd like to dig deeply
into this one - I'd love to be able to build my 32-bit Windows
programs on my Linux box.  (I can already compile MS-DOS and 16-bit
Windows under DOSEMU, and Linux versions are, of course, trivial.)

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