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danielcarcich

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My goal is to get a very simple proof of concept FPC (3.0.4, powerpc64) library working with C (gcc 4.8.3) on an AIX 64-bit machine (7.1).

My FPC library consists of two files:

HelloWorldLib.lpr
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  1. library HelloWorldLib;
  2.  
  3. uses
  4.   HelloWorldFunctions;
  5.  
  6. exports
  7.   HelloWorld;
  8.  
  9. begin
  10. end.

HelloWorldFunctions.pas
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  1. unit HelloWorldFunctions;
  2.  
  3. interface
  4.  
  5. procedure HelloWorld; cdecl;
  6.  
  7. implementation
  8.  
  9. procedure HelloWorld; cdecl;
  10. begin
  11.   Writeln('Hello, world.');
  12. end;
  13.  
  14. end.

My C application is a very simple consumer:

helloworld.c
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extern void HelloWorld(void);

int main()
{
  HelloWorld();
  return 0;
}

For compiling the library, I have tried many of the FPC arguments listed here: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/userap1.html. It successfully compiles a libHelloWorldLib.a archive file. E.g.

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fpc HelloWorldLib.lpr -B -CN -l -O2 -MobjFPC
For compiling the C application I use the following command, and have tried multiple variations on this as well:

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gcc -o hw helloworld.c -L. -lHelloWorldLib
I receive the following error message: "ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .HelloWorld". If I use "g++" instead of "gcc", I get: "ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .HelloWorld()".

If I use "dump -HTv libHelloWorldLib.a", I get nothing, which seems to indicate that there are no symbols in the archive.

I'd appreciate any assistance that can be provided. Thanks!

Phil

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I'd appreciate any assistance that can be provided. Thanks!

You might find this helpful:

https://macpgmr.github.io/MacXPlatform/PascalDynLibs.html


danielcarcich

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  • Posts: 2
Naturally after 2 days of struggling with this and finally making a post about it, I figure out what I'm missing:

I needed to add the "-maix64" flag to the gcc call. Tada! Sorry for wasting some space on this pleasant forum!

 

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