Delphi unit initialization not always called

Question

I have a unit within a .bpl, and I need a stringlist for a new function that I wrote. I want to the stringlist to persist for the lifetime of the app, so that each call can

Answer 1

How are you loading the bpl? Are you leaving it to Delphi to do the loading or are you manually loading the bpl? If you are manually loading the bpl, are you loading it as a "straight" dll or are you using LoadPackage to load it as a delphi package? I would think that either letting the vcl load it (through the requires processing) or using LoadPackage is required for the initialization sections to be run by the vcl...