[fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

[Tomas Hajny]

On Thu, June 15, 2017 16:06, James Richters wrote:
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>> 3) Make sure you always rebuild the unit depending on the program you
>> want to compile (Compile -> Build).
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> Is there a way to force this with the command line? (same as Compile >
> build from the IDE) ?

Yes, of course - it's the option '-B'.


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> Oh, I see the issue here.   So If I were to write a unit that I wanted
> Programs to share, but have various options, I may be better off to define
> a variable in the unit and let the programs change the variable depending
> on what they want.... with the compiler directives, it's actually leaving
> out parts altogether, so you need to re-compile the unit if you want to
> change it... makes smaller files than always including things you don't
> want to use.
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Yes, exactly (plus there are some more reasons, like that you want to
reduce unneeded dependencies which may not be fulfilled, etc.).

Tomas