[Lazarus] Newbie, porting class to FPC but get procedure assignment error

[patspiper]

On 20/06/15 11:38, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:01:36 +0200, Marc Weustink
> <marc at dommelstein.nl> wrote:
>
>> Just guessing, I've no experience with this.
>>
>> 1) Use the converter tool to dump the exported function names from the original .obj
>> 2) look for an exported name which looks like RNBOsproFormatPacket
>> 3) use the name conversion option of the converter tool to map the name you found to  SPROMEPS_RNBOSPROFORMATPACKET$RB_SPRO_APIPACKET_PTR$WORD$$WORD (see manual)
>> 4) do this for all 13 functions
>>
> Thanks very much! This seems to be the way to go!
> By creating a coff file from the obj file while aliasing the functions
> to the long format found in the error messages and using the resulting
> coff file in the include statement ALL errors concerning the SPROMEPS
> functions disappeared!
>
> But now I have a list of other errors like this:
> Compile Project, Target: DongleTest.exe: Exit code 1, Errors: 10,
> Hints: 20
> Spromeps.pas(13,2) Note: Ignored compiler switch "$F"
> Spromeps.pas(129,4) Hint: Unit "windows" not used in SproMeps
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: GetVersion
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: GetLastError
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: WriteFile
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: ReadFile
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: DeviceIoControl
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: CloseHandle
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: GetTickCount
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: GetPrivateProfileIntA
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: GetPrivateProfileStringA
> DongleTest.lpr(23,1) Error: Undefined symbol: CreateFileA
>
> I even added an implementation uses clause "Windows" since I
> recognized some of these as Windows API names, but it did not work no
> matter where I put the uses Windows (interface or implementation in
> SPROMEPS.pas or in the main project file).
>
> Seems like I am almost there except this list of errors....

These are used in SPROMEPS.OBJ.

Stephano