Jeff,
I have used the win32-howto 0.8, that you sent me and I have the following remarks.
1. Installing the software
The install.exe included in win3209912full.zip doesn't install the source files. On the source tab the checkkboxes are not enabled. Later I noticed that you don't need to install the sources, because you are going to check them out anyway. They could even hinder the CVS checkout.
I only installed the following dll's and no other files from the gtk zip-files in the \windows\system directory:
gtk+-dev-19990828.zip: gdk-1.3.dll gtk-1.3.dll
glib-dev-19990828.zip: glib-1.3.dll gmodule-1.3.dll gthread-1.3.dll extralibs-dev-19990828.zip: gnu-intl.dll pthread.dll
2. Updating your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
In win32-howto it says:
SET
This must be:
SET
Setting HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH resulted in the following error: E:\pp\source>cvs login
(Logging in to )
CVS password:
CVS.EXE [login aborted]: could not open D: \PROGRA~1\CVS/.cvspass: No such file
or directory
Notice the space between the drive name and path name. I used the following: SET HOME=D:\PROGRA~1\CVS
instead of setting HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.
3. Downloading the Lazarus code from CVS
I checked out the compiler (and rtl) source as well. I think it is needed, because later on you do an update, so you must have done a checkout before to get the CVS-entries, even if you have the sources already from an archive. And we need the new sources to make the fpc 0.99.13, which we need for compiling Lazarus.
cvs -z3 checkout base gtk api fcl docs lazarus compiler rtl
By the way, is the api-module needed? When does it get compiled?
In win32-howto:
See the Lazarus-developer-HowTo for the complete list of modules available.
On http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/how.html it is called "Lazarus Linux Developer How-To".
4. Create a compiled units directory
Is OK ;-)
5. Create a batch file for rebuilding your compiler.
Add at the end (it's quiet obvious):
Run this batch file from the command prompt.
If don't do this you will be using 0.99.12 compiler in step 7.
When I tried the batch-file I got a message there was no target for make libsclean in /pp/source/rtl directory.
I copied the base directory to \pp\source and that solved the problem. Unfortunately I was not able to reproduce the problem. But it seems that it has to do something with the newer makefiles in the base directory. Therefore I suggest moving the line "copy /Y base\*.* >NUL" just after "cd \pp\source". I don't know why it is needed at the end, actually I am not sure what went wrong exactly.
6. Create a batch file for updating your sources.
Here again you don't mention the rtl directory to be checked out. Isn't that necessary? To be on the safe side I included it in my updatesrc.bat: cvs -z3 update base gtk api fcl docs lazarus compiler rtl
7. Compile everything
The line:
make -n junk.bat
should be:
make -n > junk.bat
rtl compiles,
fcl compiles after a patch in bits.inc,
gtk compiles,
lazarus doesn't compile due to:
forms.pp(67,1) Error: Forward declaration not solved TCUSTOMFORM.CREATEPARAMS(TCREATEPARAMS)
forms.pp(68,1) Error: Forward declaration not solved TCUSTOMFORM.CREATEWND() Fatal: There were 2 errors compiling module, stopping Probably not an installation problem, just being on the bleeding edge ;-)
I hope my remarks are clear enough so you can merge some of them into the win32-how-to.
Vincent Snijders