In our previous episode, Willibald Krenn said: > Please forgive my ignorance on this topic, but I'd like to know whether > someone is working on adding Delphi-like packages to FPC.
To my best knowledge: no. > (At least for the windows/linux platforms.) Somehow the lack of this > feature always has stopped me from using fpc/lazarus: For a change, I am > thinking of contributing to the efforts unless - of course - the feature's > already in the works :). Some resources you might want to have a look at: - Maybe not necessary if you know them already intimately, but I kept a bit of a brainstorm on packages here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages - a bugreport about creating shared libraries using the makefiles: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12492 with 45 comments with a lot of detail. > P.S.: Way back in time, I did some "investigation" on the Delphi (6) name > mangling, see http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/27758 (german only). I don't know if this is necessary for packages, BUT: As far as I know FPC doesn't add the parameter name to the mangling, only the type. Moreover, the type is bare, iow not qualified with unitname. I don't know the status of the other details (like calling conventions). _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
