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POMoving to use of Delphi packages - best practice please?
 

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    <p>I am trying to start making my own libraries avaialble as packages prior to compiling my Apps with these packages hence modularising my code. For years I've 'sort of' understood packages, breathing a sigh of relief when I load a component package and click on 'Install' and it does. I understand that the process of installing a component (or components) is via the creation of a BPL which is then registered with the IDE.</p> <p>Where I begin to get lost is how to make files available so that I can compile with EITHER a package OR pre-compiled dcu's (like the third party vendors do) and without pointing my project at the source code all the time. I can create a package with the following settings:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yicSX.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>where I've specified that all my output will go into 'c:\scratch\wow'. After a build I find TEST.BPL, TEST.DCP and lots of DUC's. Now, when I point another project at this folder to use the DCU's, I get a missing DFM error (one of the units is a form). Should I be manually copying needed DFM's into this output folder? The DPK knows about this form, so why do I not get the DFM copied for me? I presume that using TEST.BPL, that file contains everything, but I wish to work in the two modes. Of course I can get around this by including the source folder in my project search path to find the DFM but third party libraries seem to already have the DFM's in their output folder. Did they install them there using the installer? Thanks</p> <p>instead </p>
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    1. COWhy do you prefer packages to static linking? It sounds like it will give you lots of problems with no benefits.
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