[fpc-pascal] FPC linker oddity

[Jonas Maebe]

On 21/06/15 21:43, patspiper wrote:
> program Project1;
> {$Linklib kernel32}
>   Function GetTickCount: DWORD; external;
> begin
>   WriteLn ('GetTickCount ', GetTickCount);
> end.
> project1.lpr(10,1) Error: Undefined symbol:
> P$PROJECT1_$$_GETTICKCOUNT$$LONGWORD
> 
> Changing the GetTickCount declaration to any of the following works:
>   Function GetTickCount: DWORD; external name
> '_$dll$kernel32$GetTickCount';
>   Function GetTickCount: DWORD; external 'kernel32';
> 
> Why is the behaviour different between Linux and Windows?

ELF (used by Linux) and PECOFF (used by Windows) use completely
different ways of shared linking.


Jonas