Thanks for this excellent advice. Being a person active in 9 different
versions of Borland products, yep 9. D2,3,4,5,6 C3,4,5,K1. This will be
rather helpful to me.

Cheers,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Worboys" <geoff@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] Re: IBO with C++ Builder


> > > Both Delphi and Builder create .obj files when compiling.
> > > Builder was getting confused by the Delphi .obj's.
> >
> > Why hasn't someone told me this a long time ago. This is the
> > very problem I have been facing for months!
>
> I figured that everyone with multiple development environments made
> sure their intermediate files were separated.
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> I use a single source directory for IBO. All my project files are
> setup to direct the temporary files (.obj, .dcu) out to a temporary
> directory specific to the particular environment; d:\temp\c4 and
> d:\temp\d5 etc.
>
> If you do not do this, you are bound to upset the incremental linking,
> probably even between two Delphi versions. And if you dont upset the
> linking, you are definitely forcing unnecessary unit rebuilds when
> switching between environments.
>
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
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