Re: External library name
Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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On 2025-01-05 12:36, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: > 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? As you might have noticed, it's simply a more general solution allowing to cover all target platforms supporting dynamic libraries in a more or less equal way. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal