[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 05.03.2013 10:58, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> Sven Barth wrote:
>>>> Am 05.03.2013 10:14, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
>>>>> 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.
> As this is something we (as in the FPC developers) don't need: patches are 
> welcome.
>
> [or you could try whether the ppdep tool still works: 
> http://www.freepascal.org/tools/ppdep.var ]

There is a new tool "pas2fpm.pp" which can easily be adapted to do this.
It already calculates the dependencies, but outputs them in fpmake form.

Michael.