[Lazarus] Adding units to a project

[Vincent Snijders]

Antonio Sanguigni schreef:
>      > My question is: Do I need to create a package to use that units
>     or I'm
>      > missing something ?
> 
>     This is the recommended method if you share units between projects. It
>     just works much easier.
> 
>     If you normally add a unit which lives in a different directory than
>     other units, Lazarus normally prompts you to add that new path to the
>     unit search path. Did you get any such prompt?
> 
>     Anyway, creating a package with shared units between projects is a
>     much better idea. I use it all the time.
> 
> 
> Graeme, I'm trying to follow your suggest but I'm getting some troubles 
> that I will explain in a few.
> Well, I have 5-6 units that are my BOM and with my test projects it 
> seems to work well. Now I started a new Lazarus project to build a 
> presentation layer for this BOM I'm using. I created as you said a new 
> package and added it to my new project inspector as requirements and it 
> seems to find that units.
> 
> But now I have another issue I cannot understand, I mean that units of 
> my BOM cannot find tiOPF units, even if I added tiOPF package into this 
> new project. Of course, test project with tiOPF package added worked fine.
> 

The package with the BOM (Business object model?) should have a 
requirement to the tiOPF package too, not just the main program.

Vincent