link a mingw object file(.o) in delphi?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

i wanna use the link compiler directive in delphi ({$L filename})  with a mingw compiled object.

but i get an error:
[Error] obj.pas(27): Bad object file format: 'E:Projects
820000MouseStatemouse.o'

delphi help says you can only link an Intel relocatable object file (.OBJ file), which i think MSVC++ makes.

does anyone know how to compile an Intel relocatable object file with mingw/gcc?

[Colin Laplace]

th object file format used with gcc (mingw) is not the same as Borland and MSVC++ use. So you won't be able to link with them. One solution is to create a DLL instead of an object file, which you will be able to use in Delphi (using "stdcall" to declare your dll functions in Delphi).

Greetings,
Colin

[Kip]

M$V!C++ .obj != standard object format. I think anon they are talking about coff format.

Kip

[Nobody/Anonymous]

yeah.. Delphi only imports OMF objects.

i think mingw is making COFF objects, does anyone know if/how mingw can compile OMF objects or if you can convert COFF objects to OMF objects.

digital mars claims to have a util coff2omf that converts obj files but its not free.

ciao

daniel

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I can't even if I use Dev-Pascal?