Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/09/21:49:43
Hartmut Schirmer wrote:
>
> William A. Barath wrote:
> >
> > There need not be :)
> >
> > Every one of the BGI features in the pascal version of the BGI has the
> > same name in the c version. However you will need to prototypye all of
> > them to be able to link with them from a pascal program due to the way GPC
> > mangles identifiers.
> >
> > so for example:
> >
> > #include nameofbgiheader.h
> > procedure bgifeature(args...);external;c;
> >
> > You can mix caps on the identifier and there will be no problem.
> >
> > I suggest making your own header file (or Unit) that has prototypes for
> > all the features that you use. If you actually sit down and write do it
> > for every function/procedure, I'm sure that there are many people who
> > would appreciate you posting it to DJ for inclusion in his achives. :)
> >
>
> This has already be done by Sven Hilscher. The source is somewhere on
> the
> GPC web server and will be included in the next BCC2GRX release.
>
> Hartmut
>
> PS: It's not that straight forward William says, you have to deal with
> different string types in Pascal and C for several functions ...
Yes, that is what I discovered. I am not new to pascal, but I don't know
much
about GPC. Say I could not find a quick way of defining C strings. I
must read
the GPC manual one of these days!
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