[fpc-devel] Status of dynamic packages

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:29:50 +0100
Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 10.11.2016 15:17 schrieb "gabor" <gabor at poczta.onet.pl>:
> >
> > Hello.
> > What's the status of dynamic packages? Are they usable?  
> 
> Currently only compile time packages work (meaning you can't load
> additional packages at runtime). Also currently only i386-win32 and the OS
> X targets (I did only test powerpc-darwin however) would be supported if
> packages would be enabled.
> Additionally there still needs to be fpmake support for dynamic packages
> added (so that the ppk is generated based on the fpmake.pp and that it
> indeed compiles the package).

If someone wants to help with it, what skills/knowledge are required and
what are the next steps?

Mattias