Hi Eike and any one else who can guide me,

When using a DLL or Shared object under Delphi or Kylix the headers tend to have function declarations as...

function SDL_Init(flags: UInt32): Integer; cdecl; external 'SDL.dll';

where cdecl is the calling convention and the external key word allows you to specify in which DLL or SO, the function is to be found. Obviously in this case it is 'SDL.dll'.

I noticed in Eike's port that he renamed the SDL functions to make them more Pascalised. Is there another way of achieving dynamic linking without going down the rename route?

How does GNU Pascal dynamically link to DLLs and how are the Pascal headers defined?

Thanks,

Dominique. http://www.DelphiGamer.com := go on, write a game instead;