How create Static Library (lib) in delphi?

[Newbie_Cracker]

Originally Posted by Kerlingen

Why don't you want to use DLLs?

To minimize dependencies.

Assume that your patcher needs a DLL to play a chiptone!!
It's so crazy to release a DLL and EXE for something like this.

[Nacho_dj]

You'd rather use DLL2LIB. That's the way condzero is using the Delphi code of ARImpRec.dll (Delphi dll) in Armageddon (VC++) by the use of a .lib file generated by the tool, and this works fine.

Btw, to give compatibility to your exported functions in the Delphi dll, you have to give this name to all of them:
<NameOfExportedFunction>@<NumberOfBytesInParameters>

That is, if your function uses for instance 4 parameters of size dword, the number must be: SizeOf(dword) * 4 --> 16

So, the name of your exported function would be this:

MyExportedFunction@16


Good luck with this!

Nacho_dj