OK, my problems of the past stemmed from trying to compile lazarus using the cygwin environment. For those who don't know, it makes windows look more like unix... However the make file wasn't fooled. It knew it was DOS! So I tried compiling in Dos and got farther. This got the make file making for target of win32 for i386. Close enough I say!

Now onto the next problem. After compiling several screenfuls of messages (mostly hints about static libraries, but also the "could not open the buttons.ppw" etc messages). It came to

Target OS: Win32 for i386
Compiling lazarus.pp
interfacebase.pp(31,8) Fatal: Can't find unit INTERFACEBASE make.exe[1]: *** [lazarus.exe] Error 1
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `d:/lazarus'
make.exe: *** [ide] Error 2

OK, I'm feeling really green right now. I'm a good delphi/c/C++ programmer, but I come from the windows world, and I'm having a hard time understanding how to configure this stuff. I noticed that the ppc386.cfg had paths that referred to $Target, I also noticed that the make file exported $Target_OS, yet it seems to find the right OS, so I don't get it.

Should I be reading more manuals....

Best Regards,

Chris Bruner

+ From: Compulife

+ Now onto the next problem. After compiling several screenfuls of messages
+ (mostly hints about static libraries, but also the "could not open the
+ buttons.ppw" etc messages). It came to
+
+ Target OS: Win32 for i386
+ Compiling lazarus.pp
+ interfacebase.pp(31,8) Fatal: Can't find unit INTERFACEBASE
+ make.exe[1]: *** [lazarus.exe] Error 1
+ make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `d:/lazarus'
+ make.exe: *** [ide] Error 2

Oops, it seems that for the compilation of lazarus, the 6 times compilation of the LCL isn't enough (If everything had worked OK a one time compiled LCL should be enough to compile Lazarus)

Try to issue a make lcl in the lazarus dir. If everything is ok you should see no recompilation of other units. If so, issue a make lcl again (and again and again)

After that issue make components

finally make ide

now you should have lazarus.

+ OK, I'm feeling really green right now. I'm a good delphi/c/C++ programmer,
+ but I come from the windows world, and I'm having a hard time understanding
+ how to configure this stuff. I noticed that the ppc386.cfg had paths that
+ referred to $Target, I also noticed that the make file exported $Target_OS,
+ yet it seems to find the right OS, so I don't get it.

Under normal conditions you don't have to set these.

Marc