NAME

       ppdep - The FPC Pascal unit dependency tracking program.

SYNOPSIS

       ppdep [-DDefine] [-oFile] [-eext] [-V] [-h] [A[call]] file

Description

       ppdep  dumps  the  dependencies of a unit in a format that can be understood by GNU make. It writes these
       dependencies to standard output. It takes care of dependencies both in the interface  and  implementation
       section of the unit, and it can handle conditional defines.

Usage

       You  can  invoke  ppdep  with  as the only required argument the name of the file (program or unit) whose
       dependencies you wish to list. You don't need to specify an extension, by default .pp is assumed.

Options

       ppdep has several options, which are case insensitive:

       -acall This option tells ppdep to generate a compiler call for the makefile. The compiler  call  will  be
              generated  for  each file that is found in the current directory. If you do no specify an explicit
              compiler call, ppc386 is used.

       -dkeyword
              This option defines keyword that can be used to verify  conditional  defines.   ppdep  understands
              conditional  defines,  you  should use this switch if the uses clause of the programs or units can
              contain conditional defines.

       -eext  This allows you to specify a different extension for the unit files.  By default, .ppu is assumed.
              This extension is written to the makefile.

       -f[call]
              This option tells ppdep to generate a compiler call for the makefile. The compiler  call  will  be
              generated  only for the file that was specified on the ppdep command line. If you want to generate
              a compiler call for each file found, use the -a option.  If you do no specify an explicit compiler
              call, ppc386 is used.

       -h     Shows a short help screen.

       -ofile This option allows you to specify a file to which the dependencies should be written.  By  default
              the dependencies are written to standard output.  If you specify this option, the dependencies are
              written to file

              instead.

       -v     Writes  some  diagnostic  messages.  If  you use this option, be sure to use -o as well, since the
              diagnostic messages will also be written to standard output.

SEE ALSO

              ppc386(1) ppumove(1) make(1)

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