[fpc-pascal] fpc.cfg on windows

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Oct 10 01:44:59 CEST 2010


In our previous episode, Bernd Kreuss said:
> 
> I cannot find any documentation on this: On Linux I can have my global
> fpc.config in /etc/fpc.cfg and it will also look for a config in
> ~/.fpc/fpc.cfg which is very convenient since I can put some unit search
> paths there that I don't want to specify in the Lazarus project file
> itself because the paths are on network drives and mounted in different
> locations on the different machines that I use to compile the same projects.
> 
> On Windows it seems the global configuration is in the bin folder since
> windows does not have an equivalent of /etc but where is the per-user
> configuration? I have tried %appdata%/fpc/fpc.cfg and %appdata%/fpc.cfg
> and %appdata%/.fpc/fpc.cfg and a few more combinations with and without
> dots but none of them seems to work. Where does fpc look for this file?

On Windows it looks in the dir of the compiler, as per documentation:

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/usersu10.html#x24-310003.1.5




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