From: Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT de>
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Subject: Re: HELP:NEED GPC graphics library
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 13:58:39 +0100
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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 ... 
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