Upgrading DACS' Microsoft Visual Studio Support

Phoenix Arizona, March 1, 2005 -- According to DDC-I Senior Software Engineer Richard Frost, the company's proven DACS product has always offered support for objects created by Microsoft Visual Studio. A conversion utility was used to "fix up" an object file for compatibility with the DACS linker.

Unfortunately, later releases of Visual Studio - including .Net - have added incompatabilities in the LIBC library, as well as to the initialization code for the Run Time System (RTS).

"Addressing the increasing issues experienced by a growing customer base using a combination of development tools hosted on Windows became a priority," explains Frost, who's Windows experience includes leading the rehosting program for DDC-I's TADS product line.

With the DACS 4.7.16 release, DDC-I now provides two versions of the DACS RTS. The default product is built with the standard DACS assembler and fully compatible with the standard target linker provided with DACS. An optional RTS, built with Microsoft Visual Studio, is available to every DACS customer.

Due to legal limitations, DDC-I is not able to ship the "link.exe" component of Visual Studio. Instead, a template file is provided which calls the linker and uses the Microsoft compiled version of the DACS RTS, eliminating incompatabilities and providing the customer an easy integration path for Microsoft Visual Studio and .Net.

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