[fpc-pascal] stdcall vs. cdecl: another "using a FPC-generated .dll with Microsoft Visual C++" question

[Jeff Wormsley]

Seth Grover wrote:
> I appreciated Henry's comment regarding my last question (generating a
> .lib file from a FPC-generated for linking with VC++). I ended up
> using implib (http://implib.sourceforge.net) to generate the .def file
> with dll2def.exe and then fasm.exe to create the .lib file from that,
> and VC++ seems to link fine against it.
>   
Not exactly on topic, but I'm curious why you want to link statically 
like this and not dynamically.  AFAIK, VS can call LoadLibrary and 
GetProcAddress just fine. 

Jeff.