[fpc-pascal] Different Object Code formats

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 26 Jan 2007, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

> On 1/26/07, Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > For Windows there is even an internal linker. If symbian uses something
> > like PE coff you can maybe
> > even use that one. It works for all Windows targets (Win32,Win64,WinCE)
> > already.
> 
> Does the internal linker support linking to .LIB files?

No.
 
> The problem is that the executable is a standard win32-pe, but there
> are some "gotchas" =) Like the entry point must be exported and called
> _E32EXE .... and we must link together the symbian .lib files.

That doesn't look like a workable situation. The only way to generate OMF 
object files is using Nasm, however, Nasm is not complete enough to carry 
the full FPC infrastructure.

Check if you can get the symbian libraries in COFF format. If that doesn't 
work you have to go the Nasm route or start programming on an OMF backend 
for the internal assembler (and/or linker).

Daniël