Indeed, I can confirm Delphi does this. I think since 2009 or XE or so,
but AFAIK it doesn't need to. It does it only for the files that are
explicitly added to the project, but those are also in the dproj file.
And it would compile just fine without explicitly referring to the files
in the dpr file, so I'm not exactly sure why it does it. Perhaps it's a
kind of optimization for the caching system in the IDE..
For units that contain a form, there is also the name (value of the name
property, not the classname if I recall correctly) of the form in curly
braces comment behind the file reference and it seems the IDE does
something with that as well. I can't remember clearly, but I recall an
odd anomaly in a big application with lots of legacy that had something
to do with such a comment for a unit with a form.
On 12/02/17 15:07, Lars wrote:
On Sat, February 11, 2017 5:56 am, Fred van Stappen wrote:
Unit names are considered to be unique, so strictly, for the compiler
there is no need to specify the path explicitly in code when the unit path
is given to the compiler when calling it from the command line.
To do this, use the -Fu parameter when calling fpc to include ../src to
the unit path.
Greetings,
Tim Veldhuizen.
I have found some use cases for hard coded paths in the source files..
although these use cases are rare. I think even delphi main project DPR
file does this, if I remember correctly, but I found other uses cases
other than that. One example might be when you are writing a quick
program and don't want to send in a whole bunch of -Fu options and go into
dialog boxes in lazarus configuring it, so you just quickly write it in
your program ../someunit instead of configuring -Fu which can be obnoxious
and tedious.. But that's just one use case. Another use case, AFAIR was a
build system instead of gnu make.
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