[Lazarus] RE : Forms in DLL

[Marcos Douglas]

2011/8/10 Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de>:
> On 08/10/2011 11:02 AM, Juan Sánchez wrote:
>>
>> If you really get this working reliably (on Windows, Linux and Mac), it
>> would be great to offer an addition to the Lazarus, allowing for creating a
>> "dll/so GUI Application" for everybody to use.
>
>
> This would be a great notice. I'll try it with all possible ideas. I'm with
> you that it will be great for people to get creating a GUI Application in
> DLL. We'll get it, sure!!!!
>
> In the past, there were some efforts to allow a DLL/so to use the GUI of the
> main program and e.g. create additional forms in that context.
>
> AFAIK, this is possible by synchronizing the memory manager and passing some
> pointers for application and/or forms.
>
> The downside is:
>  - I seem to remember that it is quite complicated to do
>  - this is only possible if the main program is done with Lazarus as well
>  - I don't know if the GUI designer can be used for this.
>
> So your works seems to offer a better choice.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/shared_library

Marcos Douglas