[fpc-devel] A small wish for FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, ik wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a "small" wish regarding the ability to work with FPC...
> 
> At the moment, if I'm using SysUtils, then it also adds all the
> resource string regardless if I'm using it or not.
> 
> At the end parts of the executable have a lot more content of things
> existed in units that I do not use, and sometimes even more then my
> own code.
> 
> The best idea I have to solve such thing is to use some sort of
> instructions for the compiler to tell it what I do need, and the
> compiler will check dependencies if there is a problem with my choice.

We are aware of this problem, and it is solved with the internal linker.

Michael.