Re: [jamboost] Kylix support

From: Felix E. Klee (felix.klee.jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-15 07:29:30

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:25, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> I'm not yet successfull installing Kylix, so I can't test your changes yet,
> but we'll integrate them asap anyway.

It doesn't work for you? What system are you using. I'm using SuSE 8.1 and 
although the IDE isn't stable the command line tools run well.

> BTW, how shared libraries work on Kylix? In the same was as for ordinary
> Linux/gcc?

Well, first of all, as you might guess, the ABI of Kylix and gcc shared C++ 
library is different. Maybe that will change with version 4 of Kylix (I heard 
that the gcc 3.2 ABI is becoming some kind of standard). So, Kylix shared 
libraries cannot be linked with ld. One needs to use Kylix ilink instead (or 
maybe bc++, but I haven't tried that). However, be aware that the Kylix 
generated shared libraries somehow are "unstable" and cause runtime errors 
and segfaults in applications using them. You'll find a couple of bug reports 
concering these issues on Borland's Quality Central. Note that, for whatever 
reason, static libraries seem to work flawlessly.

Felix

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