[fpc-pascal] Shared libries

[Tomas Hajny]

On 12 Dec 11, at 17:17, noreply at z505.com wrote:
> > On 12 Dec 2011, at 19:56, noreply at z505.com wrote:
> >
> >> procedure proc1; stdcall;
> >> begin
> >>  writeln('hello');
> >> end; exports proc1;
> >>
> >> procedure proc2; stdcall;
> >> begin
> >>  writeln('hello 2');
> >> end; exports proc2;
> >>
> >>
> >> end.
> >>
> >>
> >> Notice how I put exports in several places...
> >>
> >> It works on win32..
> >
> > It only partially works. Please see the bug report I mentioned earlier:
> > http://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=16070
> >
> >
> 
> interesting, I tried BUILD ALL in lazarus ide and it works, but I also
> tried not building all and using the EXPORT keyword along with EXPORTS
> section, and that requires no build all. Whereas without the EXPORT
> keyword it only works if you build all. This is on win32.
> 
> So the export keyword does something on win32?
> 
> You said that EXPORT keyword is for emx and os/2 ...
 .
 .

It's intended to be supported under OS/2 and EMX indeed. However, the 
compiler probably won't do much with EXPORT under EMX and OS/2 either 
as of now (it doesn't work due to issues with the GNU linker 
available for OS/2).

Tomas