[fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-08-17 16:52, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> Exactly. So why not use the SONAME in the Pascal binding unit instead to use
> the base name as Free Pascal currently does in xlib.pp for example?

I forked the xlib, xutils and x units from FPC and tried just that. It 
made no difference. When I compiled the project with the -Cn command 
line parameter I reviewed the ppas.sh and <project>.res file. The .res 
file has a INPUT section near the end listing all dependent libraries. 
They are translated to the same as when you use GCC's -l command line 
parameter. Only the base name of the library is used. Also, apparently 
the Unix/Linux linker (FPC doesn't have it's own - only for Windows) 
doesn't support versioned library names as command line parameters. So I 
don't think there is much FPC can do - unless I'm still not 
understanding the whole compiling and linking process, unless FPC 
implements their own linker under Unix-type OSes too.

Regards,
   Graeme

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