[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Mattias Gaertner]

Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> hat am 5. März 2013 um 11:09
geschrieben:
>
>
> 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.

Is this correct:
You need the tool pas2fpm to feed the tool fpmake to feed the tool fpc to feed
linker, lazres ....


Mattias