Hi all,

I have written a small program under linux, which calls an external procedure in a dynamic lib. See at the end of the mail. I compiled it with the -XD option without any error or warning. But when I run it, I got errors, that looks like wrong linking. The same program compiled with the gcc works nice. So the error must be somewhere in the fpc linking stage.

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program TestGtk2;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
{$linklib 'gtk-x11-2.0'}
procedure gtk_init(var argc:longint; var argv:PPchar); cdecl; external;
begin
  gtk_init (argc, argv);
end.
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Compiled under linux with:
ppc386 -XD testgtk2.pas

Running it, gives me:

specified class size for type `GParamChar' specified class size for type `GParamChar' is smaller than the parent type's `GParam' class size [...]
specified class size for type `GParamObjectspecified class size for type `GParamObject' is smaller than the parent type's `GParam' class size Runtime error 216 at 0x40342F2B
0x40342F2B
[...]
0x08048250

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I looked into the link.res file and found out the line, that creates the error:

)
INPUT(
-lgtk-x11-2.0
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 # <- this line creates the bug )

If I remove the '/lib/ld-linux.so.2' line, everything works nice.

Here is the diff of both ldd outputs:

$ diff good.ldd buggy.ldd
2a3

/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

7c8
< libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x402b2000) ---

libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x402b3000)

15d15
< /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Can someone explain to me, what is going on, and/or what params fpc needs to create a working link.res?

thx in advance,
Mattias Gaertner