When building a BCB6 project on the command line via MAKE Version 5.2 running Borland C++ 5.6.4 (seemingly including a run of Borland Delphi Version 14.0), I'm getting these warnings:
syncmeth.pas(57) Warnung: Symbol 'AllocateHWnd' wird abgelehnt
syncmeth.pas(62) Warnung: Symbol 'DeallocateHWnd' wird abgelehnt
Several web searches for the German phrase didn't provide any useful results. Then I tried to translate it, starting with things like
Warning: symbol 'AllocateHWnd' [is/was] denied
with just as little success. Finally I tried without the verb
warning symbol 'AllocateHWnd'
and found something promising: a lot of search results matching the pattern
Symbol '<whatever>' is deprecated.
But the German abgelehnt means denied and definitely not deprecated (which means veraltet as usually translated in the software development domain).
Can anybody confirm that this is only a translation error, so that I can just ignore the warnings (of course aware what deprecated means)?
A Google search of that exact German phrasing reveals the following discussions:
Strange Warning in D6 (need some help)
AllocateHWnd - Compiler-Warnung? (English translation)
Despite the German phrase "wird abgelehnt" translating as "is denied" or "is rejected" in the traditional sense, the warning messages in question actually DO mean deprecated in this situation.
The AllocateHWnd() and DeallocateHWnd() functions originally resided in the VCL's Forms unit. Their implementation was moved to the RTL's Classes unit in Delphi/C++Builder 6 (to support the CLX framework in Kylix), and the existing functions in the Forms unit were marked as deprecated (they were finally removed from the Forms unit in Delphi/C++Builder 2009).
So, the only way you can be getting those warnings in your project is if your syncmeth.pas file is calling the deprecated functions in the Forms unit instead of calling the newer functions in the Classes unit.