Greetings,

I have modified how the nightly build is produced.

In the past I made .tar.gz and .zip files that contained the binary version of the Lazarus IDE and the .o and .ppu files for all of the units. This is fine if and only if the user is using the same version of the compiler that I am. If they are using a different version then the IDE will try to find the unit source files so that it can rebuild the units.

This means the user must get the files from ftp or check them out of CVS. A waste of time and double the effort since they are required then to rebuild the units anyway.

So now instead of the object files being in the nightly builds, the source files are. This means that the first order of business when downloading the nightly build is to just 'Build Lazarus' from the Tools menu. Be sure to build everything.

This will insure that your version of the units matches and works with the version of the compiler that you have installed. The other benefit is the fact that the source files compress much better than the object files and the tar and zip files are almost half the size so you can download it faster.

If you use the nightly build and it complains trying to rebuild the IDE please notify the list so that I can check to see if I have failed to include some new files in the build.

Happy coding.