Re: [Dev-C++] Dev settings to remove @ symbol from dll exported functions - please, help!

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

I admit that it might be a bit hard to use ANY language and write a IDE
for Delphi - since I assume that Delphi is delivered with a number of DLL
etc with graphical content that isn't possible to integrate in any
language.

However, gcc has only a command-line interface. This means that just about
any language - even shell-script languages - have a perfect control of all
features available with the gcc tools. It's only a question of combining
the commands and command-line parameters in suitable ways.

One of the problems with gcc isn't gcc itself, but the command line of
win32. Since the command line doesn't support arbitrary long command
lines, some command lines that works perfectly on Unix machines will not
work under Win32.

For now I just build large projects by linking *.o instead of having the
Makefile specify each individual file. I haven't checked if gcc supports
it, but Borland and a number of other compiler wendors added support for
response files in their compilers, i.e. by specifying "bcc @respfile" all
command line parameters are read from the file respfile. They then added
support in their make tools to emit the data to the response files.

However, as you realize, these kinds of problems have nothing with the
implementation language of the IDE to do. It's a question of what the gcc
tools can or can not do, and any limitations of the target OS.

/Per W