I wanted to know if anyone has had any success with executing shell scripts on builds. Lazarus has a dialog for project options and compiler. In compiler section there is a GUI for "Execute before". I had all three options checked (Compile, Build, Run) with the shell script ./prebuild.sh

This script is set as executable and the permissions were incorrect at first but Lazarus knew to throw me the error. I fixed the permissions but get an error 127 on building the project. I tried ./prebuild.sh and just prebuild.sh and the full path/prebuild.sh and all of them threw the same error on building.

I was reading that there is a bug reported a few months ago about this kind of issue and I wanted to know if anyone is on this?

Latest Lazarus + FPC from SVN (today).

Thanks, -Andy

2010/1/31 Andrew Brunner :

It is working for me. On Windows and Linux. I have "Before: Compile, Build" checked. Command is:
"_getsvnrev.cmd $(LazarusDir)"

The script is run from the project directory (the one with .lpi).

Can you run the script directly? (./prebuild.sh)
Make sure the script returns 0 if successful.

Thanks, I just added the exit 0 to the script. I can execute the script and it does what it is supposed to do. I just can't get the script to run before I build via Lazarus. No matter what I do I keep seeing the error 127. Any other ideas?

TExternalToolList.Run Exception: the process exited with error code 127

Thanks.

Try the following:

/bin/bash /full/path/to/prebuild.sh

Jonas

No matter what I do I keep seeing the error 127. Any other ideas?

If the path to the file is wrong you get that error. Use a full path to the file and make sure you set the execute flag.

Wonderful. It's working now. Thanks guys.