Re: External library name

Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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 On Jan 5, 2025 at 4:43:39 PM, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> That said, Darwin also uses two-level namespaces:
>
> https://blog.darlinghq.org/2018/07/mach-o-linking-and-loading-tricks.html#two-level-symbol-namespace
> . However, it does not do this through name mangling. The linker simply
> encodes in the generated binary in which library/framework it found the
> symbol at link time. Then, at run time, the dynamic linker will only
> look for that symbol in that specific library (unless you force a
> flat/single namespace through an environment variable).
>

Thank you for your very detailed response.

It sounds like maybe the external library name is only useful for DLLs and
maybe the Darwin two level namespaces?

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph

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