[fpc-pascal] connecting with Delphi (object files,dll etc)

[Marco van de Voort]

> > 3. Connecting object file is difficult: FPC doesn't support OMF (object
> > files), and in FPC 2.0.2 support for COFF (object files) seems to be
> > dropped. FPC produces PECOFF (object files).
> > Sometimes you can translate COFF to OMF by (free?) Borland utility
> > COFF2OMF, but it's not well documented: FPC *.o files are not translated,
> > and I don't know the exact reason (is it their PECOFFness or some other
> > incompatibility? maybe I just use them in a wrong way?).
> 
> This is not correct. COFF is support, it is the object format of go32v2.
> Ofcourse is this not supported for the win32 target. Just like ELF is not
> supported for win32.

Note that coff2omf will probably not save you anyway due to name mangling
issues. (which might also be the reason for the dll trouble?)