Lazarus/freepascal compile error - how to solve?

[Andru]

Now the Delphi 2010 test program crashes on finishing when I compile the DLL using Lazarus, but that is another issue

Because there is a difference between size of type Char. Delphi 2009 and higher uses 2 byte per one symbol in String. FreePascal - always 1 byte.

[User137]

Ain't Lazarus by default using UTF, so some characters reserve 1 byte and others 2. But i recall reading paul had widestring compiler directive, and i'm not sure about that stuff

[paul_nicholls]

I'm not sure about the 2 byte vs 1 byte Char issue....I am passing strings to the DLL using PWideChar. I will have to investigate this further

thanks guys

cheers,
Paul