[fpc-pascal] simpleIPC for all programming languages ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 7 May 2017, noreply at z505.com wrote:

>
> Then some small questions arise: is it possible to statically link fpc 
> code into other programs rather than it being a DLL? for example .a 
> files instead of a dll at runtime? Then theoretically, IPC could be 
> linked in statically, not just as a dll.

In theory, yes. In practice: No. It needs a lot of compiler magic things, a
correctly initialized RTL etc. This is not needed for a DLL, which is more
like an .exe in this regard.

>
> Indeed the dll functions will need to be flattened out (non object 
> oriented) so all languages can use IPC, but that's not a problem for me 
> - simply I write some wrappers around SimpleIPC objects and make them 
> plain C/pascal like procedures, which is not so hard.

This is not a problem.

Michael.