External

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The external modifier:

• belongs to the calling conventions for external subroutines (eg dynamically loaded libraries);
• allows access to an external subroutine.

Examples:

  ...
   function funcTest(strTestData : Pchar) : LongWord; cppdecl; external 'Test.dll';
  ...

  ...
   function funcTest(strTestData : Pchar) : LongWord; cppdecl; external 'test.dylib';
  ...

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "External", as it stood on 2020-02-14 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.