On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 19:53:54 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist
wrote:
So, In languages like .net they have dll's that contain not
only bytecode but also the necessary headers to make them
usable in any .net language. I was curious if this kind of
thing has ever been attempted for static libraries?
basically some type of universal header + static library =
Everything Needed to use in project file.
of course they would be targeted for a certain platform but
would be really easy to grab/use.
And if the header could be agreed upon any compiled language
could use the library which would be a huge benefit.
Perhaps i'm incorrect in my assumptions. Let me know what you
think about the idea?
IIRC, Pascal unit files work that way. No interface source file
is required to use them.
