[fpc-pascal] Mangle name in fpc-FreeBSD ?

[Ewald]

On 03/19/2016 08:53 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Ewald said:
>>> Re-huh..., it should be a great plus if a dlerror() was implemented in fpc
>>> too.
>>>
>>> But maybe I am missing something, maybe dlopen(), dlsym() and dlerror() can
>>> be done by pascal code (and not via console, like I try).
>>>
>> dlopen, dlsym and dlerror are *functions*, not console commands. Well, I
>> never tried the latter, but it appears they are not on your system ;-)
>>
>> Now, I don't know where exactly these functions are declared (in which
>> unit, that is), but for debugging purposes, just add
>>
>>     Function dlopen(filename: PChar; flags: cint): Pointer; cdecl; external;
>>     Function dlclose(handle: Pointer): cint; cdecl; external;
>>     Function dlsym(handle: Pointer; Name: PChar): Pointer; cdecl; external;
>>     Function dlerror: PChar; cdecl; external;
>>
>> Somewhere in your code before you call them.
> ... or use unit dl.

I knew they were in some unit somewhere ;-) Thanks for the pointer!

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Ewald