Hi all,

This post is a follow up to a thread in the tiOPF newsgroup.

Background:
I'm using tiOPF and it uses an include file, tiDefines.inc. The problem that I have (using Laz 0.9.24/FPC 2.2.0) is that Lazarus complains:

\tiOPF2\GUI\tiGenericEditMediators.pas(23,2) Fatal: Can't open include file
"tiDefines.inc"

This is a little confusing because I have actually included the directory where the tiDefines.inc file is located within my project search paths. If I change the source

From:
   {$I tiDefines.inc}
To:
   {$I ../Core/tiDefines.inc}

The error goes away and Laz/FPC is happy.

I remembered Graeme suggesting to use the lazarus package file (.lpk) which would solve the problem. I did that, but it still manifests the problem.

Graeme suggested that I start a thread here so that he could explain it a bit better as it involves not just tiOPF's .lpk, but perhaps the general subject of using .lpk files?

Thanks,

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What I meant was that I hadn't used the tiOPF package until that point and had opted to include the paths for the tiOPF units in

Project > Compiler Options > Other Unit Files

This works for the most part, except for for the tiDefines.inc file which lazarus seems to have trouble locating even though the folder where the tiDefines.inc file resides in included in Project > Compiler Options > Other Unit Files.

I meant that I followed Graeme's advice and included the .lpk file for tiOPF in my project's "Required Packages" section, but the project was still unable to find the tiDefines.inc file.

The only way it seems to work is if I change the directive in the source of some tiOPF units from {$I tiDefines.inc} to {$I ../Core/tiDefines.inc}.

Thanks,

And the weird problem I am struggling to debug for Lee is why it works perfectly on my systems (Linux and Windows) using the exact same tiOPF.lpk package.

All Source and Include paths for tiOPF are in the tiOPF.lpk file - Lee shouldn't need to change anything relating to tiOPF in his project. At least, that's how it works for me. I'm using Lazarus v0.9.24 and v0.9.25

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Mattias G?rtner wrote

Maybe he copied/moved some files around?

No idea...

I remember months ago you and I went through this exercise to get tiOPF's packages working. Since then it has worked perfectly, on multiple systems of ours. That is why I think something is wrong in his setup (specific to his machine).

Anyway, here is the tree structure of the Source directory and the different paths show in the tiOPF.lpk package using the Unit Info dialog. The tiDefines.inc include file that he is refering to is located in the 'Core' directory. From the information below everything looks fine to me.

@Lee
How does your setup compare to mine, shown below?

/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source
.
|-Compilers
|---Delphi2005
|---Delphi2006
|---Delphi2007
|---Delphi7
|---FPC
|-----lib
|-Core
|-Demos
|-GUI
|-Options
|-UnitTests

Paths shown via the Unit Info dialog....

Unit Paths
--------------
/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source/Core
/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source/Options
/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source/3rdParty/FBLib/lib/i386-linux /opt/lazarus/packager/units/i386-linux
/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source/Compilers/FPC

Include Paths
--------------------
/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source/Core
/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source/Compilers/FPC

Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

I forgot to mention, the tiOPF.lpk package lives in the Compilers/FPC directory.

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Hi guys,

On my XP machine I have the following:

M:\Lazarus
|-IDE
|-Projects
|-3rdPartyComponents
|---tiOPF2
|------Compilers
|----------Delph7
|----------Delphi2005
|----------Delphi2006
|----------Delphi2007
|----------FPC
|------Core
|------GUI
|------Options

On a fresh install/update of tiOPF, I just Tortoise/SVN trunk into that directly into the tiOPF2 director.

Thanks,

The important answers are missing:

Where is the .lpk file, the .pas and the .inc file (full filenames)?

Open the .lpk file. A package editor should appear. Open the .pas file in the source editor, right click, file settings, unit info. What include paths are listed there?

Mattias

Mattias,

The .lpk file is located in the tiOPF\Compilers\FPC directory. .pas files are in the Core and Options folders, at least the ones that are linked into my project.

Odd, right clicking on the .lpk file does in fact open lazarus but with no visible files (the editor form in lazarus is blank). The tiOPF.lpk file does have its xml in there however and I have attached it along with the tiOPF.pas file as well.

Thanks again,

Mattias Gaertner wrote

Where is the .lpk file, the .pas and the .inc file (full filenames)?

/home/graemeg/programming/tiopf/Source
.
|-Compilers
|---Delphi2005
|---Delphi2006
|---Delphi2007
|---Delphi7
|---FPC
tiOPF.lpk
|-----lib
|-Core
*.pas
tiDefines.inc
|-Demos
|-GUI
|-Options
*.pas
|-UnitTests

The tiOPF.lpk package references .pas files in Core & Options. The include file, tiDefines.inc, is only in Core.

$HOME/programming/3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Compilers/FPC/tiOPF.lpk $HOME/programming/3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Core/tiDefines.inc $HOME/programming/3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Core/tiObject.pas $HOME/programming/3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Core/*.pas $HOME/programming/3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Options/tiQueryFBL.pas $HOME/programming/3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Options/*.pas

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Do you only open files via the explorer?
This will start everytime a new IDE.
It is not yet implemented to tell the already running IDE to open a further file via the explorer.
Please open files via the IDE menu items.

The tiOPF.lpk file does have its xml in there however and I have attached it along with the tiOPF.pas file as well.

Still missing:
Open your project (Project / Open project).
Then open the .pas file in the source editor (Files / Open), right click, file settings, unit info. What include paths are listed there? Compare them to the ones Graeme gave.

Mattias

Sorry Mattias, I don't think I understood what you wanted before. This is the include paths for one of the .pas files that could not find the tiDefines.inc file:

M:\lazarus\components\tiOPF2\Core
M:\lazarus\components\tiOPF2\Options
M:\lazarus\components\tiOPF2\3rdParty\FBLib\lib\i386-win32 M:\lazarus\IDE\packager\units\i386-win32
M:\lazarus\components\tiOPF2\Compilers\FPC
M:\lazarus\projects\POSOO\commonbo
M:\lazarus\projects\POSOO\backoffice\bo
M:\lazarus\projects\POSOO\backoffice\gui
M:\lazarus\projects\POSOO\language
M:\lazarus\components\per_layer_test
M:\lazarus\components\tiOPF2\GUI
M:\lazarus\projects\POSOO\commonbo\gui
M:\lazarus\components\tiOPF2\tiOIDMediators
M:\lazarus\components\action_executor
M:\lazarus\IDE\components\popupnotifier\lib\i386-win32 M:\lazarus\IDE\components\jpeg\lib\i386-win32
M:\lazarus\IDE\ideintf\units\i386-win32
M:\lazarus\IDE\lcl\units\i386-win32
M:\lazarus\IDE\lcl\units\i386-win32\win32
M:\lazarus\projects\POSOO\backoffice

For the tiOPF.pas file itself, no paths showed under the Incuded Paths tab of UnitInfo context command.

That is for units. (compiler switch -Fu)

Search for includefiles uses a different path (-Fi)

This is afaik btw the same as with Delphi (-I and -U cmdline params)