On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 02/10/14 23:23, silvioprog wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be >> <mailto:jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be>> wrote: >> >> "Note that this switch does not propagate to other units, i.e. it’s >> scope is limited to the current unit." >> >> "unit" should be interpreted as "compilation unit" in this context. >> >> Correct. But it does not work fine if the path contains two or more >> units. E.g: >> >> {$unitpath path\to\the\all\units\of\the\synapse40\source\lib} >> >> "..\..\3rdparty\synapse40\source\lib\httpsend.pas(72,3) Fatal: Can't >> find unit blcksock used by httpsend." >> > > That's because httpsend is a different unit than the one that included the > {$unitpath ...} directive. Once you are inside the httpsend unit, the > directive is no longer valid, as the documentation explains. And hence, > other units in that same directory won't be found. > > I understand that this may be counter-intuitive, but it's how the feature > was designed and how it is documented. I think the directive is completely > local to a single compilation unit because, presumably, it was originally > intended to allow for having units in "packages" to contain their own > unitpath directives without polluting the unit search path of the main > program. > > I tried too {$unitpath path\to\the\all\units\of\the\ >> synapse40\source\lib\*}: >> >> "Can not find unit httpsend used by myunit." >> > > Of course that won't work: it will add all directories under > "...\synapse40\source\lib" to the unit search path, but not > "...\synapse40\source\lib" itself (which is where your httpsend unit is > located). > > Jonas Hm... now it is clear to me. Thanks! But it would be an nice feature in Free Pascal, something like the "import" of Python and Java. =) -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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