[Lazarus] Windows Explorer context menu plug-in with fpc?

[Paul Breneman]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:07:39 +0100, "Thierry B."
> <thierrybothorel at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>>>>> At http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/27554 you can find the source code for 
>>>>> a shell extension which can be compiled to a 64bit library using Free 
>>>>> Pascal / Lazarus. The source code is compatible with Delphi 7 and 
>>>>> better, too.
>> Do you donwloaded the zip at url I posted herre yesterday ? You have the
>> complete thread as well as the source project.
>>
> 
> Yes, thanks!
> I also pointed my newsreader to the thirdpartytools.general newsgroup
> at emarcadero and retrieved all available 27000+ messages incl.
> bodies...
> I found the discussion from early 2010 already.
> 
> I also downloaded the Delphi/Fpc project in the zipfile, so it is now
> sitting in my PC.
> Next step is to read up on how I can tell Lazarus to compile for
> Windows X64 to get the 64 bit version of the DLL...
> (I'm new to Lazarus)
> 

Just a thought, but I don't think you need to go to all that bother. 
The example code on the embarcadero site doesn't seem to require 
Lazarus.  It just uses a Windows MessageBox for the dialog in the 
example.  I could be wrong but I think a 64 bit FPC compiler is all you 
need.

Would you be interested in maybe helping me just a little to make a 
64-bit FPC minimal distro that would compile that example code?  I've 
been using more Linux and less Windows the past few years so right now I 
don't have a 64 bit Windows to test with.