[fpc-devel] LinkLib Issues In Lazarus and in FPC-2.0.2

[Jonas Maebe]

On 17 Jul 2006, at 11:59, Marco van de Voort wrote:

>> It generates ld parameters, not gcc parameters. So you don't have to
>> parse them unless you want to use an internal linker.
>
> Thnks, will improve the text for the wiki. Not that it changes  
> much, don't
> like an external called from the compiler.

There is no other way to properly support linking to external  
libraries, unless you use something like Mac OS X' frameworks (which  
does support transparent versioning and multi-version support,  
including name changes of individual libraries part of a framework  
even if they represent the same library version if you'd feel  
inclined to do that).

That doesn't mean Mac OS X doesn't potentially have the same library  
problems though, since most open source based libraries are not  
distributed as a framework.


Jonas