D1: Trying to update Juno Library to 1.076

[jicman]

On Thursday, 22 August 2019 at 18:54:50 UTC, jicman wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 August 2019 at 18:26:52 UTC, jicman wrote:
>
>> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
>> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
>> c:\D\import\juno\com\core.obj(core)
>>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _VarCmp at 16
>> c:\D\import\juno\com\core.obj(core)
>>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _VarDecNeg at 8
>>
>> As you can see, there is nothing there...
>
> So, I did a search through all the code and found these lines,
>
>   int opCmp(VARIANT that) {
>       return VarCmp(*this, that, GetThreadLocale(), 0) - 1;
>   }
>
> and
>
>   int VarDecNeg(DECIMAL* pdecIn, out DECIMAL pdecResult);
>
> Which I think call Kernel32.lib.  I found GetThreadLocale [1], 
> but after adding,
>
> pragma(lib, "Kernel32.lib");
>
> to the file, still get the same problem. (I also deleted all 
> .obj files and recompiled.  The interesting part is that 1.046 
> compiler, compiles and links. Interesting phenomenon.
>
> josé
>
> [1] 
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnls/nf-winnls-getthreadlocale


I think I have figured out what is going on.  I will comeback, if 
I need more help, but I have to rewrite a few more functions.  
But, thanks for pointing out the pragma.  That gave me an idea of 
what was going on.

josé