The Purpose of WINSTUB in Windows SDK

Last reviewed: July 22, 1997
Article ID: Q11591

3.00 3.10 WINDOWS kbprg

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows versions 3.1 and 3.0

WINSTUB is provided with the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) as a normal MS-DOS program. It contains only an assembly equivalent to a printf() line. It is assembly, so it does not have the overhead it would if it used the C runtime library. WINSTUB can be used as a stub if no MS-DOS version of a program exists. To have both a Windows version and an MS-DOS version of a program in one .EXE file, replace the following line in the .DEF file

   STUB 'WINSTUB.EXE'

with the following line

   STUB 'MYDOSAPP.EXE'

and relink.

Additional reference words: 3.10
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: KrTsksIns
Keywords : kb16bitonly

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Last reviewed: July 22, 1997
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