[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > >>But on the other hand, if an application programmer could
> > >>disable FPC's unit handling and use  make -j  instead, choosing
> > >>to pay the price of difficult maintenance, it might defuse the
> > >>criticism coming from certain quarters.
> > >>
> > >Make can not figure out the dependencies between units by itself
> > >as it would need to parse them.
> > 
> > That's for the user to do, if he thinks he can do a better job than FPC.
> 
> Or implement an option that spits out the dependencies for make, so that
> the user doesn't have to do this.

That does't work, since in FPC an unit is an interface AND an
implementation. And inline functions are in the implementation, not the 
interface.

The only way is to simply toss the modular system (units) out, and work with
$i, declare functions as externals in headers, let the compiler spit out
dependencies.