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Aw, that's not cool :-(   Anyway, thanks for your reply, I would never have 
figured that out by myself. Any hints about the include file thingie - I've 
never used the command line compiler, so I'm a bit lost with all the 
tidbits, and it's not too generously documented.

Thanks again,
Antti Kurenniemi

"Brandon Smith" <redwoodtwig@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> The -DFIRSTVERSION declaration will only apply to the .dpr file.  In
> order to have a conditional apply to the other files you will need to use
> an include file and reference it in each file that needs it.
>
> Wish it weren't so, but that's been my experience.  If you look at the
> open source suites, you'll see that's how they do it.
>
> Brandon
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" <NOantti@SPAManttikPLEASE.com> wrote in
> news:42343d5f@newsgroups.borland.com:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I am trying to compile two different versions of an app using a batch
>> file. All is working nicely, except that I can't make the conditional
>> compiling work. I have
>>
>>   -DFIRSTVERSION
>>
>> on the command line, and then
>>
>>   {$IFDEF FIRSTVERSION}
>>   ... some code, including setting the main form's caption
>>   {$ENDIF}
>>
>> in one of the source code files, but it doesn't compile that code. I
>> also have -B in the command line, to make sure everything is compiled,
>> but still no go. What could be going wrong? Is the define project
>> level, or source code file level, and if the latter how do I specify
>> the file in which it should be turned on?
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>
>>
>>
>