On 2017-08-17 16:52, Martin Schreiber wrote:
Exactly. So why not use the SONAME in the Pascal binding unit instead to use the base name as Free Pascal currently does in xlib.pp for example?
I forked the xlib, xutils and x units from FPC and tried just that. It made no difference. When I compiled the project with the -Cn command line parameter I reviewed the ppas.sh and <project>.res file. The .res file has a INPUT section near the end listing all dependent libraries. They are translated to the same as when you use GCC's -l command line parameter. Only the base name of the library is used. Also, apparently the Unix/Linux linker (FPC doesn't have it's own - only for Windows) doesn't support versioned library names as command line parameters. So I don't think there is much FPC can do - unless I'm still not understanding the whole compiling and linking process, unless FPC implements their own linker under Unix-type OSes too.
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