[Lazarus] LCL and DLLs, initializing the widget set safely?

[Marco van de Voort]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:50:48PM +0100, Christian Budde wrote:
> > Without knowledge of LCL's internals, I tried to call those methods
> > and functions from the DLL's initialization section, but it didn't
> > work. The exception was gone, but the DLL still failed and broke the
> > debug information. Could someone with knowledge of the LCL tell if
> > it's possible to initialize the widget set in the DLL, and how should
> > that be done to be safely?
> 
> I encountered the same problems. Going a bit further I even add a bounty 
> for solving these DLL problems (in fact a bit more than just this). I 
> even made several bug reports but everything in this regards is always 
> marked as post 1.2, which is a reason why I probably won't touch lazarus 
> until it finally reaches 1.0 or this feature has been integrated.

It will more likely reach 1.0 before this is implemented.

> Or maybe we can join forces to solve this problem some day. I already 
> had a look into the topic and I guess to solve it permanently (not by 
> making some work around), several changes at LCL level are necessary. 
> Maybe some others with more knowledge about the LCL can join the team as 
> well.

Start reading up on packages:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages

(If you don't want to go that way, start specifying what should work, and
how you would do it, and how you solve the problems the package article
above names in an userfriendly way)