Am 17.02.2012 08:08, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
On 16 February 2012 18:30, Sven Barth wrote:
If I remember correctly you are on a Windows system and you used the normal
Lazarus installer? Then you have the source, because the Windows installer
includes the source for the RTL and Packages directories of FPC inside
%lazarusdir%\fpc\%fpcversion%\ (otherwise most of the RTLs features like
CodeTools would not work as good as they do, also you would not have been
able to find e.g. "Integer" in the help).
So what you are saying is that if you don't have the source code for
FPC, them some of the help wouldn't work??? Now that is a design flaw!
Having the source code of FPC was never a requirement for Lazarus -
but now it seems it is a must. A very odd design if you ask me. [good
news is, I have a solution I'll post in another thread]
Let me say it this way: If you don't have access to FPC's source than
most of Lazarus features won't work (not only the help). That's why the
source is bundled with the Windows installers and also why the IDE asks
you to provide a source directory on first start with an empty
configuration (this is new in trunk).
Regards,
Sven
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