{"id":1218,"date":"2012-09-11T22:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T10:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2012-09-11T22:48:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T10:48:15","slug":"1218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1218\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Dotty With Lazarus\/FPC"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

I am in the middle of writing a much longer post about variations and recent additions to Pascal syntax in Delphi, Oxygene and Lazarus, but at the same time I also decided to start on the process of migrating some of my code to Lazarus and FPC. In the process I have hit upon a snag.<\/p>\n

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Ever since I discovered that Delphi 7 (SEVEN!) supported “dotted unit names”, I have adopted this style of unit naming in my own code organisation. In Delphi 7 this incurred some less than desirable behaviours in the IDE, since the support for dotted unit names was at that time a little… preliminary.<\/p>\n

Sadly, this means that – as far as I can tell – none of my existing units can be used “as-is” in Lazarus and FPC. There is no support for dotted unit names there, not even with FPC set to “Delphi” syntax parsing.<\/p>\n

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At first I thought this meant that my Lazarus\/FPC ambitions were stalled at a disappointingly early stage.<\/p>\n

However, not to be deterred I quickly I found that several suggestions have already been made<\/a> as to how FPC might go about implementing dotted unit names, some of which aim to improve on the approach in Delphi (though in Delphi mode I would expect things to behave in as Delphi-like a way as possible, obviously).<\/p>\n

Then I found that some support in this area has already made it’s way into the latest development version of the FPC compiler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All I need to do now is figure out how to get Lazarus working with this later, pre-release build of the FPC compiler (something which I gather is possible, just not “plug-and-play”). I also need to be a little cautious as, being pre-release, whatever form the dotted unit name support in the current FPC trunk takes, it could still change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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