[fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

[Henry Vermaak]

On 17 Aug 2017 21:21, "Graeme Geldenhuys" <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk>
wrote:

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.


You can use -l:libgreat.so.1 with gcc to link to a specific library version
(iirc).

Henry
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