[fpc-devel] resource support rework

[Boian Mitov]

Are there any plans for shared libraries based packages support in the 
future?

  With best regards,
    Boian Mitov

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Mitov Software
http://www.mitov.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giulio Bernardi" <ugilio at gmail.com>
To: "FPC developers' list" <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] resource support rework


> The idea is to be able to generate resource-only shared objects (without 
> any code, I made a proof of concept some time ago and at least for ELF it 
> works), so that programs can load resources from different dlls.
> For dynamic libraries containing resources, maybe the "dll rtl" can not 
> make use of it and let the main program use it (resources in DLLs are 
> always searched with dlopen/dlsym, so it will be the same, from the main 
> program point of view, if resources are in a resource-only dll or not). 
> This of course until we have packages working.