I use the Synapse TCP toolkit. I recently updated to 2.0.2 (can't get a full working 2.0.3 in Windows yet for some reason) and found that Synapse suddenly didn't compile in Linux.

Now, it's likely that the Synapse toolkit has already been updated, but my point is the difference now between Linux and Windows. Previously the same code worked, but now you have to remove the pointer(*) typecast from Linux, but it still had to be there for Windows.

Was this intentional? Both compilers (Linux and Win32) are running 2.0.2 now.

Here's what I had to do to the Synapse toolkit:

function FreeLibrary(Module: HMODULE): LongBool;
begin
  {$ifdef linux}
  Result := dynlibs.UnloadLibrary(Module);
  {$else}
  Result := dynlibs.UnloadLibrary(pointer(Module));
  {$endif}
end;
function GetProcAddress(Module: HMODULE; Proc: PChar): Pointer;
begin
  {$ifdef linux}
  Result := dynlibs.GetProcedureAddress(Module, Proc);
  {$else}
  Result := dynlibs.GetProcedureAddress(pointer(Module), Proc);
  {$endif}
end;

If it worked, it was a coincidence. This because unit dynlibs specifies "tlibhandle" as library handle. There are some cludges that define a type "HMODULE" as type, but that might break, e.g. when unit Windows is included before dynlibs, or some other unit that defines it.

AFAIK this has been fixed in the Synapse toolkit.
It has been changed to use the agnostic TLibHandle type.

Michael.

Okay, thanks. I just thought it was odd that it worked the same for both and then in a later FPC it didn't.

One day I must update my synapse toolkit too ;-)

-Tony