Micha Nelissen wrote:

> Vincent Snijders wrote:
> 
>> An extra handicap for the linker is the fact that the windows unit,
>> which is rather large is always smartlinked, resulting in (I estimate)
>> ten thouands of object files (archived in the .a file). You probably
>> won't have this amount of .o files in c programs.
> 
> 
> Can we seperate the windows unit in a unit that has function
> declarations that all versions of windows have, and one that only
> WinNT/2k/others have? Or is this not practical ?

Units imported from dlls require import entries. This would increse the size of
executables significantly

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