On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:08 +0100 (CET), Mattias Gaertner <[email protected]> wrote: >Bo Berglund <[email protected]> hat am 31. Januar 2011 um 16:06 >geschrieben: > >>[..] >> Hmmpf... After checking out lazarus there is no IDE to run, right? >> So I cannot use any IDE dialog to specify a better way of compiling >> since as yet there is no lazarus.exe to start.... >You can compile Lazarus from scratch with "make".
If you had read the conversation where this comment was made you'd have seen that: 1) I had used make clean all already 2) Andreas had stated that using make would not build the packages and hence I should use the built-in compile instead, which of course is not possible following an svn checkout... > >> >> > CGILazIDE is deprecated for some time now and as it seems >> > finally gone (or renamed?). If you don't need it, kick it out ;-) >> >> OK, but I don't even know what it is. >Well, if you as developer do not know, how should the IDE know? And this is also a rather odd comment since apparently this package was installed by *default* in earlier versions of lazarus and has now been removed from the sources (by the developers of lazarus) causing the error meassage to appear. Being a developer does not mean that one searches out each and every item in an IDE and learns its use. I sure don't when I am just evaluating lazarus and fpc as a development platform alternative to Delphi... >> Anyway, I stopped the process after answering yes to this and the >> following similar dialogue and instead went to the rebuild of the >> complete lazarus IDE and now I have done this and the 5dpo component >> tab appears in the IDE, so I thought that all was done. >> But not.... >> I cannot compile my test application, which uses sdposerial because: >> formmain.pas(9,13) Fatal: Can't find unit SdpoSerial used by formmain >> >> Why can it not find it this time? >Have you tried right click on the message and use "Search unit"? > No, I did not know about such a shortcut. Instead I located the project options and in CompilerOptions/Paths/OtherUnitFiles I added the path to the unit file that was missing. But I still do not know if this is the right place. It will probably only affect this project so it has to be repeated for the next. I would have thought that adding a component to the IDE pallet would also make its location known to the IDE so it can find the file that corresponds to the dropped component when compiling.... Bo Berglund -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
