[fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

[Martin Schreiber]

On Friday 18 August 2017 07:28:01 Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Thursday 17 August 2017 22:20:44 Graeme Geldenhuys 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.
>
> Did you remove the various {$linklib} statements too?
> Did you check all units which where included by "uses" statements?
> BTW I tried to fork xlib.pp too but gave up because of the too many files
> which hat do be forked and it was too dangerous for existing projects.
>
I checked with a simple library file, it seems that FPC strips the ".so*" part 
from "external" names. So the only way to make version-safe binding units in 
Free Pascal seems to be to use dlopen()/dlsym().
Is this intended?

Martin