Thanks Max,
we don't have the OBJ files, just the lib files.
Regards,
Phil.
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From: "Max Nilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: C++ Name mangling
> Phil Middlemiss said:
>
> > that's what I thought it would be. My problem though, is that I'm
> > not quite sure what I should be looking for to find the correct
> > #pragma or declaration
>
> I have just thought of another approach that you can take to doing this,
> although it may be more work that its worth:
>
> In you Delphi code do a
>
> {$L WhatEverItsCalled.OBJ}
>
> function mobileCreateConnection(var connection: THIS_CONNECTION): Integer;
> external;
>
> and then you can link to and call the function directly from Delphi. As
far
> as I know Delphi dones no name mangling on external declarations, and in
> fact you have to add underscores if you are linking to a library that has
> then included.
>
> The only drawback to this is that if the library code in question calls
> standard C library functions that are not included in the library you have
a
> few issues to deal with. One approach it to duplicate the library
functions
> in Delphi as stubs that call the equivalent Delphi code (eg, for malloc
and
> the like), the other approach would be to link in the appropiate BC++ OBJS
> files and create whever stubs are needed to do the name mangling, probably
> via some assembler code.
>
> It all depend on how the librarty code was originally written, and if its
> was carefully designed to facilitate other langauge linking or not.
>
> Cheers, Max.
>
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