[fpc-pascal] Free Pascal created libraries used by other languages

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible, or is there something special that needs to be done to
> create a library that could be used by other languages?
>
> For example. I'm interested in created a library (.dll and .so) of fpGUI
> Toolkit, so the library can be reused by other fpGUI based applications
> (reducing deployment size of executables), and allow languages like C to
> use the fpGUI Library (.DLL and .SO) to create C gui applications. This
> also means I can deploy "minor fixes" in the fpGUI library, without having
> te recompile all the applications.
>
> Is this possible with Free Pascal?

1. Not without package support.

2. Since FPGui is object oriented, it will be unusable unless you devise
   a 'flat' API.

Michael.