[Lazarus] FYI: Shared Libraries support

Lee Jenkins lee at datatrakpos.com
Fri Feb 22 00:46:58 CET 2008


Hess, Philip J wrote:
> That's an ancient article. The perceived problem with DLL's had more to
> do with Visual Basic's runtime and VB .ocx controls that had to be
> registered than it did with DLL's themselves. If you develop and
> distribute DLL's with your app, there really is no problem. You can even
> load them yourself with LoadLibrary.
> 
> All OS's and many apps on Windows, Linux and OS X are made up of
> numerous dynamically loaded libraries. You don't see Linux and OS X
> developers worrying much about this issue.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Phil
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org
> [mailto:lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of mramirez
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: Lazarus at lazarus.freepascal.org
> Subject: [Lazarus] FYI: Shared Libraries support
> 
> Hi.
> 
> There's have been some previous posts about shared objects/dynamic  
> libraries support with FPC/Lazarus IDE. I'm sending a link to an  
> related article, about DLL, just for general information, not to start  
> a "flame war":
> 
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1153065,00.asp
> 

Ugh!  I used it as well as Delphi, freepascal/lazarus and Java, but I swear .net 
is like walking around the world to go next door !

-- 
Warm Regards,

Lee

"Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to 
door."



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