Writing Externals in Pascal?

[Andre Garzia]

Scott,

Been there as well. I remember many many many years ago talking about this
exact topic with members of the community and with if I recall, there were
some troubles in the way FPC generated the libraries, some linker stuff
which might not be a problem these days.

It would be a wonderful feature if Rev had a comprehensive FFI so that we
could use other languages besides C/C++ to extend it.

Cheers
andre
PS: Stay tunned for some stuff I am about to release about interoperation.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:49 AM, RunRevPlanet <
runrevplanet at smpcs.server101.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Trying to gauge the potential interest in a Revolution Externals SDK that
> could allow you to develop externals in Lazarus/Free Pascal. Instead of
> requiring some form of C/C++ wrapper, which is the only language that is
> currently supported by the official Externals SDK.
>
> To be able to write externals purely in a Pascal/Delphi dialect would be
> useful to me, but I do not know for certain if it can be done with Free
> Pascal -- there may be linking or name mangling issues which prevent it from
> working.
>
> * So before trying, I am just wondering what level of interest there would
> be in such a resource?
>
> If it's just me who still uses Pascal, then I probably won't even bother
> thinking further about it. But if there is interest, who knows...
>
> Note, I have little free time for such a project, so even if there is
> significant interest, I make no promises about whether it will happen, or
> when.
> --
> Scott McDonald
>
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