[fpc-devel] darwin - rtl include files

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Wed May 17 09:47:00 CEST 2006



On Wed, 17 May 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt schreef:
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Most logical would be to store the conditionals that pkg is compiled 
>>>>> with in
>>>>> package.fpc ?
>>>> 
>>>> Well, the point is, you could get all source pathes from the currently
>>>> valid ppus.
>>> 
>>> If they are compiled on this system? Most people use precompiled FPC in
>>> combination with lazarus.
>> 
>> You don't need the sources. The .ppu contains everything you need.
>> 
>
> They don't contain implementation in human readable form. For example if I 
> have the TComponent.Name property, I want to be able to jump to 
> TComponent.SetName method declaration and then to the implementation. You 
> need sources for that. Does the ppu provide (relative) source locations?

According to daniel: yes

But you should separate 2 things:
- Provide feedback (tooltips, code completion)
- View actual sources.

For the first, the .ppu is enough. In Delphi 'Find declaration' also
doesn't work half the time...

Michael.



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