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Peter Swinkels Sat Mar 9 2024 at 5:29 am
*.LIB files

Hi,

I have always been interested in investigating how old MS-DOS programs work. I have noticed a lot of older software appears to have been compiled with some version of the Microsoft C compiler for MS-DOS. I have looked at a few of those compilers and have noticed they come with *.lib files and I am curious as to what exactly is in those. Does anyone know of any documentation or where to look?

Also, it seems the compiler for QuickBASIC comes with similar *.lib files.

Thank you! :-)

*.LIB files - Peter Swinkels (Sat Mar 9 2024 at 5:29 am)

LIB files are just a collection of OBJ files - Plasma (Sat Mar 9 2024 at 12:58 pm)
- Extracting parts of a library-> - Peter Swinkels (Sat Mar 9 2024 at 5:13 pm)
  - Success, but now I would like to know more about object files. - Peter Swinkels (Sun Mar 10 2024 at 5:06 am)
    - yes - Plasma (Mon Mar 11 2024 at 12:14 am)
      - OMFView looks like a useful tool! Thanks! * - Peter Swinkels (Mon Mar 11 2024 at 5:20 am)
    - correction - Peter Swinkels (Sun Mar 10 2024 at 5:52 am)
LIB.EXE - Peter Swinkels (Sat Mar 9 2024 at 5:54 am)

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