Background:
I have an old DOS console program that I'm trying to resurrect to run on
Windows XP. There isn't much about the structure of the program that I
need (or want) to change. But the interfaces to hardware will have to
change. It uses the old "PORT" array to communicate to the Serial port and
a similar mechanism to communicate to an add-in board.
To work under XP, my understanding is that the old memory mapping stuff
will no longer work. So, we got a newer, equivalent A/D board which comes
with a library of interface functions. We have figured out how to replace
the old interface code with newer calls to wrapper functions written in
C. (The original author did a VERY good job of structuring the code to
isolate the interfaces!)
So the new structure is:
Application.pas, App1.pas, App2.pas, ..., AppBdIF.pas
Wrapper.c
Interface1.lib, Interface2.lib
Where "AppBdIF.pas" calls functions in "Wrapper.c" which in turn makes
calls into "Interface1.lib" and "Interface2.lib". The ideal would be to
compile "Wrapper.c" and the two "InterfaceX.lib" files into a "Wrapper.lib"
which contains everything. Then, I link "Application.pas" to all the other
".pas" files and to "Wrapper.lib" and I'm done.
The Problem:
The problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to get FPC to link to
static libraries. FPC's linker won't look for the "Wrapper.lib". It
either wants "Wrapper.dll" or "Wrapper.lib.dll". I can compile wrapper.c
to an object module (in Visual C 6.0) and FPC will link to that object
file. However, then the interface functions are undefined because I can't
get the linker to see the "Interface.lib" files that contain them. I've
tried setting up my wrapper module as a DLL but haven't had much luck
there (I suspect the problem is that I'm not correctly creating the DLL in
the first place since I can't get another test C program to link to it.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Lowell C. Savage
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