[chbot] Help finding a copy of an old toolchain - Borland C++ V5

[Mark Atherton]

Charles,

The project has a load of per-compiled, closed source libraries that 
need to be linked to, so not able to port elsewhere.

Anyway, eventually found the required linker, so all is OK.

Regards,

mark

On 10/01/2016 1:50 p.m., Charles Manning wrote:
> Mark,
>
> In the interests of longer term maintenance, have you considered 
> porting it over to gcc?
>
> Assuming this project is valuable (otherwise you'd not be wasting your 
> time), keeping it alive on Borland is just putting ogff the evil day 
> when something else stops you (eg. Can't get Borland tools to run on 
> new hardware).
>
> A pity you did not ask this about 3 months back. I recently had a 
> clean out and my copies of Borland V4 and V5 are now somewhere in the 
> Kate Valley landfill.
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz 
> <mailto:markaren1 at xtra.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     Just looking at a (non-commercial) project which requires the
>     Borland C++, V5 IDE, for Windows.
>
>     A copy has been purchased from eBay, but is likely to take some
>     time to get here.
>
>     The target is a 16 bit 186, and V5.5 of the tools do not appear to
>     support 16 bit, so V5 (or a bit earlier ?) is required.
>
>     V4.x may also be acceptable. V3.1 does not work.
>
>     I am specifically in need of TLINK.EXE, but the whole toolchain is
>     preferred.
>
>     Please email me off list if you can help.
>
>     Many thanks,
>
>     Mark
>
>
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