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From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:20:57 -0500

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        I very much appreciate your careful replies. I hope you will find my brief replies entertaining reading. You're certainly right about having to list all modules (except for certain pseudo modules which MUST not be listed).

        But there's still a big problem. Gérard, how in the world did you do that? Read on. :-)


At 05:37 PM 5/9/2006, Doug Danforth wrote:
>...they (I believe) must be in the bottom up order (lowest level module first)...Let DevLinker tell you what is needed and then keep adding them, eventually reducing the number of additional modules to zero. ...By the way, StdLog and Out are not simple modules (as you can see by the above list) since they make use of all the View construct. I think there is a much simpler output (can't remember the name) for your .exe program that does not use Views, etc.

        After the first iteration I counted 109 modules listed (many of them duplicates)! I also tried another minimal application which does not use StdLog, and it also just expands, with many dependencies out of sequence.


At 05:43 PM 5/9/2006, Gérard Meunier wrote:
>But the resulting exe file doesn't work, because some hooks are not correctly initialized (don't ask me why). I suggest you use the menu command "Info->Create Tool", that gives a more reliable result.

        Your module list does indeed work. BUT, how in the world did you get it? From the Log file, by hand, or ?? !!

        I had already tried Info > Create Tool, and that doesn't work at all. I highlighted the module (alternatively, the module name) and selected Info > Create Tool. There is no tool for LinkExe, and the tool for Link compiled BlackBox itself, not module TestJunk. None of the lists created seems to be very useful.

        The exe file from your link list is pretty large at 791 kB, but that's the least of my problems.


>SYSTEM and WinApi are pseudo-modules that generate no code. So, there is no need to import them.

        OK, that helps a LOT. It turns out that these "modules" MUST not be listed.


Rex Couture

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