I guess I've got to get to the bottom of why I get this “Illegal character in format string” error under OpenBSD. I seem to be able to work around it in programs I might write by taking the Run → Clean up Build Files -> Clean up and Build approach. But I don't seem to be able to rebuild the IDE to add help packages
Trying to install chm help using the directions at http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE My Lazarus installed itself into /usr/local/share/lazarus I built lhelp.ini by loading it into the ide and doing a clean and build. Now I have an /usr/local/share/lazarus/components/chmhelp/lhelp/lhelp executable. Look for chmhelppkg: doing "save and rebuild IDE" to install it, got "illegal character in format string". Did my usual fix, restarted the ide, but it still shows as not installed. I need to rebuild the IDE I think, but the "save and rebuild" option is grayed out now. Clicked the Help button for hahas. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Installed_Packages opens in Opera (why Opera not Firefox, Firefox is the default? Internal setting I guess) Tools -> Build Lazarus from http://wiki.freepascal.org/Install_Packages "Illegal character in format string" again. "clean and build", rebuilt lhelp apparently. Build with normal IDE gets me the same error, I'm in a loop. A similar thing happens when I try to install ExternHelp 1.3 Looking at configuring the build. lazarus-ide is in /usr/local/bin so I browsed to that as the target directory. gtk2, i386, openbsd. Verbose, restart after build. Click build, watch. After "Compiling IDEIntf 1.0" the Illegal character error is back. Click OK, IDE is still open so I close and reopen. Package -> Install Packages. chmhelp still has a green + and isn't installed. Trying inf help. Going to http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/Documentation/ I ended up with 1 renamed zip which has in it fcl.inf, fpc_lang_ref.inf, fpgui.inf, rtl.inf all dated Apr 4 2015 Created /usr/local/share/lazarus/components/infhelp1 and copied the infs in there. How to connect to them? Back to rebuilding the ide. Built lazbuild, trying lazbuild -B lazarus.lpi: 106110 lines compiled, 12.6 sec 8 warning(s) issued 64 hint(s) issued "Compiling package SynEdit 1.0" completed Start IDE, look under Packages, the help packages still aren't installed. I don't know where this illegal character error is coming from, but I didn't get it when I built and installed initially. -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
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