Peter Gerwinski wrote:
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Unit BO5 ( Tools, Objects, Events, Displays, whatever ); (* "BO5" is the name of my planned ultimative library; you can substitute "EFLIB" if you prefer something already existing. ;*) Interface Implementation end.would produce one large `.gpi' file such that "uses BO5" would give all the functionality of `Tools', `Objects', etc. to the program and tell the linker to link all the files `tools.o', `objects.o', etc.
(* Perhaps Borland's syntax "Library BO5" instead of "Unit BO5" would be a reasonable extension to directly produce `libbo5.a', i.e. automatically invoke `ar' and `ranlib'? *)
I would not advise the use of "Library" for this purpose. In BP, "Library" is the reserved word used to make DLLs. We would expect the Win32 and OS/2 ports of GPC to produce DLLs (do they do so now?) - and, for compatibility, I would suggest that we kept "Library" for that purpose.
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