DLL "import units"
In article <burleigh.813606...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>,
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Frank Burleigh <burle...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>The *Language Guide* suggests using import units in projects that call
>DLLs. The import unit contains types and proc/func declarations so
>that all projects using the DLL can depend on this import unit. The
>the dox are silent on how or even whether a DLL's import unit should
>be integrated with the DLL project itself.
>It seems to me that lines like this (from an import unit):
> implementation
> procedure SomeProc;external 'somedll';
>are fine for the importing project but make no sense for the DLL
>project since it would seem to tell that project that the proc is out
>in a DLL somewhere when really the proc is implemented in some other
>PAS file that is part of the DLL project.
You're right: The import unit is only used on the importing end. The
dll's procedure are not external to the exporter!
Plug time: You may find my DLL Maker -
ftp://deeptht.armory.com/pub/midnight_beach/dllmkr11.zip
- to be useful. You tell it what units to put in the dll, and it generates
the library (export) and import units for you, exporting all "export" procs
*and* generating shell code to let you export statically bound object methods.
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