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

[Marco van de Voort]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:59:46PM +0100, Christian Budde wrote:
> > Netscape is not created in lazarus, and doesn't communicate over plugin
> > interface using pascal types.
> >
> > Which is exactly the problem packages try to solve. Please do not confuse
> > the situation more than necessary.
> 
> 
> I don't think he is confusing the situation more than necessary, it was 
> the original topic to use the LCL in DLLs and not to change the package 
> system in Lazarus. 

packages and package system in Lazarus are unrelated, because delphi uses
the first mechanism to implement the second it is not the same

please read: http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages first.

However there might be some confusion here, if you mean having a totally
contained Lazarus program in a DLL together with RTL and DLL, then that is
somewhat comparable with the netscape example.

But that is not what afaik the thread was about, and what I meant, that is  
to have a libfpc.so (RTL+FCL and other packages without dependancies) and
liblcl.so and reuse them for all my lazarus applications. 

The problem then is that it is not just a few plugin functions to register,
but the complex system of objects, methods, variables, memory management etc
over DLL borders, IOW the full content of the FPC language and libraries.