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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been trying to build and load dynamically a simple shared library using Lazarus and the FPC. At the moment I have a simple one function shared library that compiles and builds cleanly and I have a couple of lines to try and load the library.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It consistently returns a handle of zero. The associated error from GetLoadErrorStr is “No such file or directory”. Using objdump I can see that the library needs ld-linus-armhf.so.3 and that is in the /lib folder.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I replace the library name with a shared library in the same folder generated using the C compiler then it loads fine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The only different that I can see in that the Lazarus generated shared library has the soft-float ABI flag set and the C library has the hard-float ABI flag set!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any clues as to why this can fail.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>