[fpc-pascal] uses in '' relative paths

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 10:53:16 -0600
Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> I'm trying "uses in" which I never knew existed before.
> 
> The idea is that I provide a path to TOML.pas using -Fu then use the
> "in" syntax to reference the units which are in a subdirectory. This
> makes it safe from the project importing the unit so any private
> units in the subdirectory don't override units from the importing
> project.
> 
> unit TOML;
> interface
> uses
>   TOMLParser in '/sources',
>   TOMLTypes in '/sources';

uses
  TOMLParser in 'sources/TOMLParser.pas',
  TOMLTypes in 'sources/TOMLTypes.pas';

Not Delphi compatible.
 
> This doesn't seem to be working however. I was hoping that I could
> then omit an extra -Fu flag to the subdirectory "/sources" thus
> making it easier to include the main unit but maybe that's not how
> the "uses in" syntax works. 

Only in FPC:

{$unitpath sources}
interface
uses
  TOMLParser, TOMLTypes;

Mattias