Is there such a thing?

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Thu Feb 26 13:37:45 PST 2015


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.


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