I ignored the help issues for now and opened my trusty Delphi 3 on my laptop for reference. Cranked out my first program in a couple hours. It was 20 megs until I turned optimization on and debugging off, then it went down to a little over 4. The C command line version is about 8 K, but oh well.
Installing and running as root seems to present a strange problem in that when I rebuild the IDE it doesn't write the new version to /root/.lazarus/lazarus, it stays in /usr/local/bin. I'll figure it out. So that's why adding packages and rebuilding seemed to not work, because I had lazarus-ide in my rxvt menu but the new versions were ending up as /usr/local/bin/lazarus and I wasn't using them. Rebuilding the real thing while I was running it crashed big time. New questions: Can I use my Deplhi 3 help files? These are old-style .hlp files, not .chm. How can I change my help browser from Opera? Firefox thinks it's default but Opera keeps getting called somehow. The problem with it is that since it's not open source I'm actually running a Linux binary under Linux emulation, which is slow. I saw the illegal character error only once, doing a clean and build got around it. Now to try compiling this into an apk file... -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
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