Question

as the title says, I’m trying to compile a Win32 program without the aid of an IDE, just so I can learn. I’m using Borland Studio 2006, and my first thought was to take some files generated from a Forms application from the IDE and compile the project file… that gave me errors about expecting unit and finding object instead. I know that’s from the dfm file which holds all the settings for a form, but I don’t get how the IDE deals with that file, can anyone help me understand the system better? 🙂

Answer 1

I found out all I needed to do is compile the top level unit into a dcu, and then the project will compile 🙂 If anyone else is trying to do the same thing, there’s some great info at the bottom of this page

http://www.codexterity.com/raw-delphi/index.htm