[fpc-pascal] linking to dll still fails

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I still have no success in linking against a dll on windows.
> 
> The dll import source looks like this:
> 
> ...
> {$linklib 'hdf5'}

You should change this to {$linklib hdf5.dll} for windows. Otherwise the compiler
will try to link to a static library.

> ...
> function H5open:herr_t;{$ifdef BSD}cdecl{$endif}{$ifdef Win32}stdcall{$endif};external;
> function H5close:herr_t;{$ifdef BSD}cdecl{$endif}{$ifdef Win32}stdcall{$endif};external;


It would be better to have

function H5close:herr_t;{$ifndef windows}cdecl{$else}stdcall{$endif};external;

This way it will also work on Linux, and Mac OS X.

Michael.