Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? This is my point it uses 200 other f*** units that aren't really needed!
So you are saying if one wants a single 50 line unit & does a complex procedure eg installi ng 10^10 lines of fpc etc then it is simple? And of course you have to do this for every version of fpc you want to use! And, of course as I've seen, the size of the .exe from v2.2.2 cf v2.6.2 is twice as large because of all the c*** included by the various uses.. This is all simple? Not in my dictionary's definition! Dooooooh J BTW, the other impact is that the size of the .exe On 1 March 2013 21:55, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 01.03.2013 21:57, John Lee wrote: > >> Thanks all for your help - found the .ppu and .o at last - I note than >> inifiles itself needs some other stupid unit! ! I think you'll agree it >> is all more than somewhat compllcated tho' - can't see why registry unit >> is part of fcl tho - surely it is a simple routine for reading the >> registry - not rocket science- just a windows utility so should be eg in >> \rtl\ or objpas or something like that so one can easily find it and >> compile it with whatever version of fpc w/o hassle and fighting with n >> dependencies which don't add any real value. >> >> Everything should be as simple as possible... as the great man said!. >> > > It *is* simple. When you do an installation of FPC a "fpc.cfg" is created > where all the unit paths included with the installation are already > included. So the only thing you need to do is to add "registry" to your > "uses" clause, compile and be happy. > > And "registry" is part of the FCL, because it is no base unit. > > > Regards, > Sven > ______________________________**_________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - > fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.**org<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> > http://lists.freepascal.org/**mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal<http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal> >
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