XTool - Successor of ZTool

[Gupta]

Originally Posted by elit

does it mean official source code translated to Pascal and included/compiled with project, or does it mean having your own self-written routines?

i think pascal compiler's abi is compatible with maybe gcc(if gcc not, i think its borland(embarcadero) c++ itself which sucks at optimizations) so they used compiled objects and directly links with the pascal code see https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/...al/zlibpas.pas
Another trickery can be, represents your dll as hexadecmial literals in your code and using some library like, to directly load from memory, quickbms uses it

[kassane]

Originally Posted by Gupta

i think pascal compiler's abi is compatible with maybe gcc(if gcc not, i think its borland(embarcadero) c++ itself which sucks at optimizations) so they used compiled objects and directly links with the pascal code see https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/...al/zlibpas.pas
Another trickery can be, represents your dll as hexadecmial literals in your code and using some library like, to directly load from memory, quickbms uses it

For what I have tested the borland compiler is based on clang(msvc edition), as far as minGW posix is not compatible, I just do not know if it is possible with minGW win32. Since you use msys2 then it's posix!