<p>Am 17.08.2017 22:20 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" <<a href="mailto:mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk">mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk</a>>:<br>
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> On 2017-08-17 16:52, Martin Schreiber wrote:<br>
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>> Exactly. So why not use the SONAME in the Pascal binding unit instead to use<br>
>> the base name as Free Pascal currently does in xlib.pp for example?<br>
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> I forked the xlib, xutils and x units from FPC and tried just that. It made no difference. When I compiled the project with the -Cn command line parameter I reviewed the ppas.sh and <project>.res file. The .res file has a INPUT section near the end listing all dependent libraries. They are translated to the same as when you use GCC's -l command line parameter. Only the base name of the library is used. Also, apparently the Unix/Linux linker (FPC doesn't have it's own - only for Windows) doesn't support versioned library names as command line parameters. So I don't think there is much FPC can do - unless I'm still not understanding the whole compiling and linking process, unless FPC implements their own linker under Unix-type OSes too.</p>
<p>FPC does have its own, internal ELF linker, though that is not enabled by default currently as it still has its shortcomings. But even then it would follow the conventions of the target OS.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven</p>