Delphi; Conditional defines in the .dpr: FastMM4 disappearing – via: G+ I’ve got an old problem, in which the IDE…
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/05
Vin Colgin posted on G+:
The kind of text that the Delphi IDE often removes in a .dpr file.
FastMM4 and lines in the *.dpr
I’ve got an old problem, in which the IDE will take the lines required out of the “uses” clause in the *.dpr. Something I’m sure we’re all aware of, but is there a solution to keep it from doing it?
The comments indicate the problem is less severe in more recent Delphi versions:
Daniela Osterhagen Actually it has become much better. The IDE doesn’t meddle as much with the DPR files as it used to.
One option for solving this issue is adding a new unit as the first entry that permanently stays there and moving the ifdef to that unit.
That’s what I did a long time ago and even put on-line, and even put it on-line at CodePlex as FastMM4BootstrapUnit.pas (now moved to bitbucket as FastMM4BootstrapUnit.pas). Too bad CodePlex and BitBucket are not indexed on Google, so I commented this:
I’m using a FastMM4BootstrapUnit for that at the top of my DPR; it looks like this […]
It will eventually end up at my BeSharp.net repository any way.Let me know if you need it there soon, and I can probably get something published after the Entwickler Konferenz next week.
So various people are now using this:
- Vin Colgin: very nice. Thanks for the tip!
- Warren Postma: This works fine for me in xe6 and up.
- Bruce McGee: Nice. May I steal this? And by “steal”, I mean giving credit in the code comments.
Since I could use this unit during my EKON 2014 talk about Delphi Unit Testing, I expedited the publication:
And explained the usage in this Unit testing session session materials.
Note: this file isn’t indexed either (as BitBucket doesn’t allow it), but since the repository will be git based in the foreseeable future anyway, I can then move it to GitHub which does allow Google to crawl the master branch.
–jeroen
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David Heffernan said
@Remy No, I was referring to the FastMM4BootstrapUnit.pas unit
David Heffernan said
What are those Indy units doing. That seems odd. I personally use a unit alias for this need.
Remy Lebeau said
David, I assume you are referring to Indy’s DPKs that use IFDEFs around platform-specific items in the ‘requires’ and ‘contains’ sections? That is mainly because Indy’s package hierarchy predates Delphi’s multi-platform features. We just have not gotten around to re-organizing the hierarchy yet so Indy has platform-specific DPKs.
David Heffernan said
@Remy No, I’m referring to all the Indy stuff in FastMM4BootstrapUnit.pas
jpluimers said
The unit still needs some cleanup and documentation. As soon as time permits I’ll add that, and write a more elaborate article around it.