Hello, FPC developers' list.

Is there a reason that during project compilation compiler duplicates all the resource files in the compiler output dir? For me it looks as both a waste of time and hdd free size. This happens for all LFM and RES files which my project includes.

Il 01/02/2010 04:09, Paul Ishenin ha scritto:

The reason is explained in this log message (2008-01-10):

* .res files must be copied to units output folder, otherwise .res files will not be found when only compiled units path is available and compiler does not know anything about sources folder.

Giulio

Don't understand. To copy the res file compiler must know the location to copy from. No?

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Il 01/02/2010 08:58, Paul Ishenin ha scritto:

It copies the .res files from where they are to the compiler output directory. I agree that it might be better to directly put .res files in the output directory, just I don't remember now if there were some drawbacks...

Giulio

In our previous episode, Paul Ishenin said:

Yes, but it might not have the source (src/) directory later for the next compile, only the output dir.(units/$FPCTARGET)

Marco van de Voort wrote

Yes, but it might not have the source (src/) directory later for the next compile, only the output dir.(units/$FPCTARGET)

For the later compile it has .or file which has all lfm and res merged together.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.