On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:10:26 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>David Emerson wrote: >> Sounds like you installed the compiler part, but not the fpc sources. >> >> Try here: http://www.freepascal.org/down/source/sources.var >> >> On Mon 3 Jan 2011, Bo Berglund wrote: >>> I installed FPC on Win XP-Pro from the 2.4.2 installer. >>> Then I retrieved the lazarus sources from SVN. >>> Then I did make clean all for lazarus. >>> All this worked OK. >>> >>> But now when I start lazarus it complains about missing fpc sources >>> and it looks like the fpc 2.4.2 does indeed *not* deposit any source >>> files... >>> At least I cannot find any in the dir I installed FPC into. All >>> subfolders there are: >>> bin >>> demo >>> doc >>> examples >>> msg >>> units (which does not contain the sources) >>> >>> So no source folder. :-( >>> >>> What can I do now? > >I don't know whether this is any help and it is oriented towards Linux, >but I'd add that I normally build FPC from source, in part because doing >so is a good test that the compiler is working on the machine in >question. Having done so I do a make install and check that the >symlink in /usr/local/bin is OK, then make clean and copy the fpcsrc >directory into the appropriate place in /usr/local/lib (I'm being >intentionally vague here since this will vary depending on version number). > >Having done that, one is left with a consistent tree of binaries and >source. Start Lazarus with the --pcp= option so that the IDE you're >running uses a private configuration file that specifies how it can find >the matching compiler. > I have just downloaded the 2.4.2 source zipfile and now I have the problem of extracting it to the right location... My FPC install dir is C:\Programs\fpc\2.4.2\ Where should I put the sources? In a subdir to this named source? The zipfile expands to a top folder named fpc-2.4.2, which obviously is not my install folder name.... And inside there are no subdirs named source or anything like that. Advice please? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus