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<DIV>Does anybody have experience with or can anyone out there give me some idea as to what kind of parameters / combination of same I need to do a buildexternal correctly in OpenVMS? To construct a SHAREAble subroutine from Quick?</DIV>
<DIV><BR>I have successfully created, compiled, BUILDEXTERNAL /NOSHARE and executed a Quick screen calling a C subroutine. Whopee! Haven't done that in a dog's age. C is 10 years ago....<BR><BR>However, (HOWEVER), when I attempt to build a /SHARE-able copy of the <BR>subroutine (for performance - no spawn) using buildexternal and its myriad <BR>of combinations, permutations and etrc. parameters per the Qdesign manual, <BR>it patently doesn't work. <BR><BR>The PHEXE works like the proverbial charm, but the .EXE does not. Quick just skips over the "do external" statement (put debug into the C routine - and it's not called)...I have <BR>tried 25 different ways from Sunday but the resulting .EXE just seems to <BR>be ignored by the Quick program and merrily (demonstrably) does the square <BR>root of zero in the "do external" construct.<BR><BR>Anybody have ideas?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks!<BR></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>John M Penney</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>1532 Fern Street SW</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Olympia, WA 98502</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>(360)789-8159</STRONG></DIV>
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