[fpc-pascal] The new Delphi 2010 RTTI

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, alexvins at mail.ru wrote:

> 10.01.2011 12:05, Sven Barth пишет:
>> No, FPC should rely on the operating system for dynamic linking. There is 
>> no use in duplicating a functionality that is already there. One "just" 
>> needs to spot all problems that might arise on different platforms when 
>> using dynamic libraries (e.g. symbol resolution on Windows vs. ELF based 
>> systems).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sven
>> 
> If so, there must be an executable format supported by all FPC target 
> platforms natively. I don't know any such format. We have to duplicate some 
> OS functions to make things crossplatform.

Why ? 
There is no need for that; You can perfectly use the OS functionality.
All you need to do is add a layer on top which hides the OS specifics.
Borland could do it, so we can do it too.

The main problem is the Windows target where a library is more like a 
self-contained exe. On Linux (and probably Mac OS), libraries already 
work as packages are intended to work.

Michael.