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OMF format to COFF format

is there any tool like Borland "coff2omf.exe"for converting Borland OMF LIB format to MS VC++ COFF LIB format ?

actually i want to create .obj file in delphi and use that in MSVC++ .

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  • To the best of my knowledge there is no such tool. Using Agner Fog's object file converter, the tool that Arnaud refers to, I've never succeeded in converting a Delphi unit into a COFF .obj that can be linked to an MSVC program.

    I do believe that it's not realistic to take Delphi source code, compile it, and then use the generated object in MSVC. The other direction is quite possible. You can compile C code to an object, and link that object to your Delphi executable. When you do this you need to resolve any dependencies that the compiled object has.

    But to link a Delphi object into a C/C++ program is going to require whatever part of the Delphi RTL that you use. And that's going to be tricky unless you happen not to use any part of the Delphi RTL, which seems unlikely.

    In your situation I think your options are:

    1. Port the code to C or C++.
    2. Compile the Delphi code into a dynamic library and link to that from your C++ program.