Preventing Microsoft LINK From Running CVPACK

Last reviewed: July 17, 1997
Article ID: Q87931

5.30 5.31 5.50 5.60 MS-DOS kbtool

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft LINK for MS-DOS, version 5.3, 5.31, 5.5, and 5.6

SUMMARY

By default, when the LINK command line includes the /CO[DEVIEW] option (to add symbolic debugging information to the executable file), LINK runs the CVPACK program to reduce the size of the data. To prevent LINK from running CVPACK, specify the following option on the LINK command line:

   /CO[DEVIEW]:N[OCVPACK]

To debug an application with Microsoft CodeView versions 4.0 and later, CVPACK must process the executable file. If CVPACK does not process the file, an attempt to debug it with CodeView does not show any source code and one of the following messages appears:

   CV0102: unpacked CodeView information in 'filename': use CVPACK
   CV0103: relink 'filename' with the current linker

Additional reference words: kbinf 5.30 5.31.009 5.50 5.60
KBCategory: kbtool
KBSubcategory: LinkIss
Keywords : kb16bitonly

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Last reviewed: July 17, 1997
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