how to make code reusable in Turbo C

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Hi,
I am working in TC on window XP.I want to know how to make a code reusable in TC(like printf,etc.) which required .h file in Include Folder & respective .lib File in LIB folder. And how to make this .lib files.
Plz,if someone knows this,plz help me.
Thank You.

Posted 20-Feb-11 4:35am

rj4test

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Solution 1

You may want to start out be reading the
Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel - Free Electronic Book Volume 1 & Volume 2[^].

You probably need to read some TC specific material too. tlib is the utility that enables you to combine .obj files into a library (.lib)

On the other hand I would really consider moving to Visual C++ 2010 Express[^], it's available for free too.

Regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 20-Feb-11 4:46am

Espen Harlinn

Updated 20-Feb-11 5:12am

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[no name] 20-Feb-11 13:28pm

thanks.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Feb-11 17:22pm

Another interesting book on C++ I never knew (I hardly read much except Bjarne Stroustrup, which is not for everyone).
Thank you very much, 5.
What could you say about quality of this book, maybe I can recommend it to others?
--SA

Espen Harlinn 20-Feb-11 17:46pm

It's free, it's not bad - very good value for the money.
For a primer, possibly, but not as readable as Stanley Lippman, nor particularly exiting – but it does take you through the initial steps of learning C++.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Feb-11 18:02pm

Thank you.
Bookmarked, will take a look.
"Exiting" is not a requirement :-) I don't know how about "exciting", but when somebody recommend something "cool" first signal I get causes me to ask myself first "how can I avoid it" :-)
--SA

Espen Harlinn 20-Feb-11 18:11pm

Back in the early 90's I found books like "Compiler Design in C" inspiring, http://www.holub.com/publications/other/slaying_the_dragon.html
Learning to design and develop programs is a h*ll of a lot of work, so some inspiration is always good :)

Solution 3

Save your code.h file into include folder(C:\TC\INCLUDE\). Now you can use it like printf function just after adding #include<<code.h>>. You may can add the prototype on that header file to reduce adding prototype in your main code.
TC3.0 may not support to build/export user define lib(may I don't know).
But TC5.** supports this. So you can try this in TC5.**.

Posted 20-Feb-11 5:19am

Аslam Iqbal

Updated 20-Feb-11 5:25am

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[no name] 20-Feb-11 13:28pm

thanks.

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-20T05:02:00

You should build a static library.
Turbo C++ 3.0 (sorry I've just this one) has the Application menu, from wich you may select "Library" as the output of your application.
If your version of Turbo C has not such a menu (or command line linker option), you may consider to use a more update IDE (for instance Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition[^] that is freely available).

[update, source: Schildt's book "Turbo C - The Complete Reference", 1988 (!)]
Since version 1.5, Turbo C comes with TLIB.EXE, hence you my build your own static library using the command line:

TLIB library_name [operator]module_name [operator]module_name ...

where:

library_name is the name of your library (TC automatically append the .LIB extension, if you didn't provide one).

operator is one of the following:

+ adds the module to the library.
- remove the module from the library.
* extract the specified .OBJ file from the library.
-+ replaces the module inside the library.
-* extract the specified module file and removes it from the library.

module_name is the name of your object file (again TC assumes .OBJ extension if not specified).

[/update]
:)