[fpc-pascal] Module or Plugin or similar howto implement?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reimar Grabowski wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:13:15 +0200
> Eduardo <emorras at xroff.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm developing an app and need to extend its functionality via external
>> modules or plugins. Currently i'm trying to do it using dll/so but
>> don't know if there are better methods to do implement it. 
> 
> I don't know if there are better methods, but I can say that the dll/so approach works quite well. At least it did for our project. It was written in C++ but I think it will work with pascal as well, if not better due to superior language. :)

It works, and a dll/so can be dressed up quite nicely as an object. The 
weakness is the lack of embedded description of the parameters etc. of 
each entry point.

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