Fw: Buildexternal phenomenon(a)

[Penney, John]

Dear Listers:
 
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?

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....

However, (HOWEVER), when I attempt to build a /SHARE-able copy of the 
subroutine (for performance - no spawn) using buildexternal and its myriad 
of combinations, permutations and etrc. parameters per the Qdesign manual, 
it patently doesn't work. 

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 
tried 25 different ways from Sunday but the resulting .EXE just seems to 
be ignored by the Quick program and merrily (demonstrably) does the square 
root of zero in the "do external" construct.

Anybody have ideas?
 
Thanks!

John M Penney
1532 Fern Street SW
Olympia, WA  98502
 
(360)789-8159

 


      
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