Yes, I was trying to link with the dlls instead of the libs - oops.

The necessary lib files  live in /devstudio/vc/lib.

the wsock.lib is now called wsock32.lib

The linker reported  that the winmm.dll sas corrupted or unusable... which
it was from it's perspective.

Thanks for the help.

Dave LeBlanc

At 09:53 PM 11/14/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> Followiwng the directions in the win32 source download, I had the following
>> problem:
>> 	The winmm.dll file is reported as "corrupt or unusable".
>
>Reported by whom?!
>
>> 	Then wsock.dll file does not exist.
>> 
>> I guessed that the files needed where in c:\winnt\system32; is this
correct?.
>
>Yes.
>
>> Are there newer instructions for building the VM on later versions of VC++?
>
>The above sounds to me as if you've tried to add winmm.dll and wsock.dll
>to your linker settings. Please note that you have to add winmm.LIB and
>wsock32.LIB to the linker settings. This should do the trick.
>
>  Andreas
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