[fpc-devel] Delphi-like Packages, Plan

[Matt Emson]

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On 4 Oct 2010, at 04:35, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Dimitri Smits schrieb:
> 
>> It is therefore simple to say in delphi that you want to build with
>> rtlXXX.bpl only, but still have the vclXXX.dcp statically linked into
>> your executable when you use a TForm and include the Forms unit
>> somewhere in your code.
> 
> This sounds like a post-D7 feature?

No, Delphi 5 onwards allowed the developer to choose which BPL's are linked statically and which are dynamic. We used to link the RTL and VCL but have our BPL's external. I forget the reasoning, but it worked. 

M