BTW, the project broke while I was trying to use Digital Mars C instead wondering if its funny behavior was due to a bug in the C compiler I was using.

there is no snn.lib in open watcom or watcom v11, 10, 9, 8 or 7.

Harry Potter wrote on 2026-04-09, 22:34:

Hi! A short while ago, I had a problem with Open Watcom saying the mentioned file was missing. I restarted my system then reinstalled Open Watcom but to no avail. I tried another project and didn't get the error. I replaced the problem project's project file, and the problem still appeared. I had to revert to an earlier state in the project and replace some files that changed, and now everything's fine.

I searched the sources, there is no mention on SNN of any kind. Sounds like your build scripts try to pull it in. Which command are you executing?

OW was executing the linker at the time. I don't know why I was getting the error, but I got around it.

When a .lib is mentioned as missing, then it must have been requested explicitly either via the linker command line, or a pragma in some object file (if the compiler supports that). Catching the latter would be more difficult. You have to binary search the objs passed to the linker until you find the culprit.. Good thing you got it sorted out already, cuz it's not fun to do the above.