Microsoft KB Archive/28972

QuickC Version 1.01 SETUP.DOC File: Combined Libraries PSS ID Number: Q28972 Article last modified on 04-27-1988 PSS database name: S_QuickC

1.01

MS-DOS

Summary: The following information is from the QuickC Version 1.01 SETUP.DOC file.

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Combined Libraries After it finishes copying files from the distribution disks (hard disk installation only), SETUP creates one or more combined libraries, using the responses you gave concerning the memory model(s), and floating-point math method(s) that you wish to use. If you plan to use the QuickC programming environment for in-memory compilation, you must at least build a medium model library with emulator floating-point math, since this library is required to run in this environment. A “combined library” is a file containing one or more component (individual) libraries. You can decrease link time dramatically by linking a single combined library instead of separately linking the component libraries that it contains. If you install on a hard disk, SETUP asks whether you wish to delete the component libraries after SETUP has used them to build the combined library or libraries that you requested. In most cases you will want to delete the component libraries, since they occupy significant disk space, and they are not needed for linking once the combined library exists. If you are installing on a floppy-based system, SETUP automatically deletes the component libraries since on 360K floppies there is no room for them. After SETUP deletes component libraries GRAPHICS.LIB is also left on the disk.

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