Okay, but that hold true for any kind of variable, not only those "cvar;
external;" ones.

Anyway, I'll see if changing the base type of the array to pointers is possible.

Thanks,
Marc

Hi,

is it possible to have an array initialized with variables?

I tried sth. like this (by accident, not intentionally):

const
ctypes: array [0..9] of hid_t =
(
H5T_NATIVE_INT, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL, H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL

	);

assuming the names in upper case are constants. But in fact they are variables (declared "cvar; external" but I think that's not the cause of the error).

var
	H5T_NATIVE_INT: hid_t;
	...
	H5T_NATIVE_INT_g : hid_t;cvar;external;
initialization
	H5T_NATIVE_INT := H5T_NATIVE_INT_g;

The compiler does find an "illegal expression" after the first item in the initializer.

Is there another way but moving the initialization from the interface to the implementation of some "procedure init"? I'd like to see the declaration in the interface part.

TIA,
Marc

This is the error; The values must be known at compile time.

Michael.