[Simh] Building PDP-10 with Visual C++ 2005 Express

Rich Alderson simh at alderson.users.panix.com
Mon Apr 23 17:58:33 EDT 2007


In order to delve more deeply into the mechanics of disk drive emulation in
SimH, I have been trying to build the PDP-10 emulator using the zero-cost
Visual C++ 2005 Express product from Microsoft.  After figuring out how to make
it point to all the necessary include and lib files (including downloading the
Win32 SDK), I am having a problem with unresolved externals in the linker.

1>------ Build started: Project: SimH PDP-10, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Linking...
1>pdp10_sys.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xu_dev
1>pdp10_sys.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _dz_dev
1>pdp10_sys.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _cr_dev
1>pdp10_sys.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _ry_dev
1>pdp10_sys.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _ptp_dev
1>pdp10_sys.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _ptr_dev
1>sim_ether.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__htonl at 4 referenced in function _eth_add_crc32
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__htonl at 4
1>sim_ether.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__ntohs at 4 referenced in function _eth_packet_trace_ex
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__WSAGetLastError at 0 referenced in function _sim_err_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__socket at 12 referenced in function _sim_create_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__WSAStartup at 8 referenced in function _sim_create_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__listen at 8 referenced in function _sim_master_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__bind at 12 referenced in function _sim_master_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__htons at 4 referenced in function _sim_master_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__connect at 12 referenced in function _sim_connect_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__ntohl at 4 referenced in function _sim_accept_conn
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__accept at 12 referenced in function _sim_accept_conn
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol ___WSAFDIsSet at 8 referenced in function _sim_check_conn
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__select at 20 referenced in function _sim_check_conn
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__recv at 16 referenced in function _sim_read_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__send at 16 referenced in function _sim_write_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__WSACleanup at 0 referenced in function _sim_close_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__closesocket at 4 referenced in function _sim_close_sock
1>sim_sock.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__ioctlsocket at 12 referenced in function _sim_setnonblock
1>sim_timer.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeGetTime at 0 referenced in function _sim_os_msec
1>sim_timer.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeEndPeriod at 4 referenced in function _sim_timer_exit
1>sim_timer.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeBeginPeriod at 4 referenced in function _sim_os_ms_sleep_init
1>sim_timer.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeGetDevCaps at 8 referenced in function _sim_os_ms_sleep_init
1>MSVCRTD.lib(crtexew.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain at 16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup
1>Debug\SimH PDP-10.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 29 unresolved externals
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\richa\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>SimH PDP-10 - 31 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I feel certain that this is due to something I've missed, but being neither a C
programmer nor an IDE user I haven't a clue what it might be.

Advice, anyone?  All I want to do is fire up a debugger on this and watch how
it does certain operations.

                                                                Rich Alderson



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