Hey:

Has anybody got a clue how to statically link the windows c run time with lazarus/freepascal on Windows 7/8 x32 or x64?

, there are all sorts of references to {$LINKLIB
libmsvcrt.a}

But there is only libmsvcrt.a when I install MingW 4.8.1 compiler

Since forum.lazarus.freepascal.org is no longer available, any prior posts about this topic are gone.

Cheers,

Marco

Oops:

That was a typo error.

First I need to link to c run time on Windows.

Then I need to link to c run time on OSX.

Cheers,

marco

In our previous episode, said:

Has anybody got a clue how to statically link the windows c run time with lazarus/freepascal on Windows 7/8 x32 or x64?

No idea.

Those afaik are not about statically linking msvcrt, but about the gdb C (and the C/Unix libs it depends on) needing this library to link to the msvcrt DLL. IOW it is an import library.

Marco:

Thanks for your response.

I am trying to use {$LINKLIB ceecodelib.a} .

But this compiled c code makes references to Windows C Runtime calls like _memcpy, etc.

Under linux, I was able to use {$LINKLIB c} and it picked up all the unresolved references for the linker.

Under Windows Win32 (On Windows 7,8, etc), I do not see any blogs or posts that indicate how to resolve references
like linking to the C runtime (msvcrt.dll)

Instead of manually providing a link to msvcrt.dll, I want to tell the linker to look for unresolved references there.

I also have to get the problem solved on OSX.

Thanks for any advice you may have,

Cheers,

md

In our previous episode, said:

What is that library compiled with? I guess mingw.

You probably need various .a files from that compiler to get this working. Preferably exactly the same version and exactly the same build, though I guess import libs are pretty invariant.

The ones that you see in gdbint are meant to be used with a package that contains libgdb.a and all other .a's that are dependencies from the mingw suite these were built with.

Marco:

Based on the tone of your response, I am thinking that I am doing something stupid on windows win32?

Should I be using Microsoft compiler to build ceecodelib.a? (Instead of Mingw 4.7x)

I was seeing COFF magic error for Microsoft compiler static libraries.

The amount of information I found on compiling c-code for static linking against freepascal has
been pretty sparse, so I guessed that I need to use a gcc compiler to create static linkable code for freepascal 2.6.2

A good example is inside the static library ceecodelib.a which calls: GetTickCount( )

My pascal code successfully links {$LINKLIB objwin32/libceecode.a}, but that is not the real problem.

This error shows up in the linker for freepascal as:

Error: Undefined symbol:

So that is what I am trying to get rid of, all the unresolved references by telling the linker where to find the function
without having to manually put a function GetTickCount : DWORD; cdecl ; external name 'Kernel32.dll' ; in a pas file for every unresolved reference.

Just easier with {$LINKLIB kernel32}, except the compiler spits out:

Error: Import library not found for kernel32. (Yikes!)

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, your my only hope.

md

In our previous episode, said:

Based on the tone of your response, I am thinking that I am doing something stupid on windows win32?

Not really. You are just asking C questions in a Pascal list :-)

Should I be using Microsoft compiler to build ceecodelib.a? (Instead of Mingw 4.7x)

No, but you should get the relevant libs from that mingw compiler that you used.

If you link the .a library in C, you must provide a whole bunch of -l options on the gcc cmdline.

It is those options (and the corresponding .a files from the mingw distribution you used) you must provide here.

Just easier with {$LINKLIB kernel32}, except the compiler spits out: Error: Import library not found for kernel32. (Yikes!)

FPC doesn't not need import libs. So you must provide those yourself from the development system you used to create the .a.

You are on the correct path but you need to point to the mingw libraries. They provide the stubs for msvcrt and other windows standard libraries. Take a look at these step by step instructions on static linking
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,15712.msg84781.html#msg84781 . It is about linking Sqlite but it applies to most C code.

Ludo

Ludo:

I wish the forum.lazarus.freepascal.org website were functional. It is usually not responding most of the time.

Can you or anybody just copy the step by step instructions into an email and send it to me directly?

I would love to look at the step by step instructions, but that forum has an internet connection problem.

Funny, last night, I could look at the site for the first time in days, but this morning, it is not available.

Maybe it suffers denial of service attacks?

Thanks,

md

Must be an issue on your side, I can access it, at any time I have tried in the last few weeks, just perfectly fine...

Ralf

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I'm getting 404 error some times (randomly). However, in a minute I can access the forum again.
It might be an issue on the hosting server.

thanks,
Dmitry

The problem in tracert to the developer outside of telekom.at

md