Hi gurus,
I'm trying to compile a Carbon application for PowerPC from an i386 Mac OS X box. The i386 code compiles fine, but when I try and target PowerPC I get an "Can't find unit Printer4Lazarus used by MyApp" error.

Any ideas?

Dominique.

Open the Printer4Lazarus package. Go to Compiler Options. Set target processor and build.

The same for LCL

Hi Felipe,
I could not find the specific packages so I did a make all using the ppcppc compiler and when I do that I get the following compilation error Fatal: Can't find unit MacOSAll used by CarbonInt

Am I not supposed to be able to do a
make all LCL_PLATFORM=carbon
and target the ppcppc compiler?

Dominique.

Dominique Louis wrote

I could not find the specific packages

lazarus/components/printers

make all won't compile the printers package AFAIK. And it will compile the Lazarus IDE. Doesn't look like a good idea.

make bigide will build both the IDE and printers.

anyway, if you really want to build in the command line I would try setting TARGET_CPU=powerpc

You are supposed to use the latest release version of the fpc compiler or the SVN head of a development version.

Vincent

Vincent Snijders wrote

You are supposed to use the latest release version of the fpc compiler or the SVN head of a development version.

Hi Vincent,
All the code is from the SVN or does "SVN head of a development version" mean something else?

Dominique.

Dominique Louis wrote

All the code is from the SVN or does "SVN head of a development version" mean something else?

The problem is that in Free Pascal 2.2.1 the FPCMacOSAll unit was renamed to MacOSAll.

2.2.1 is a development version, and thus changing over time. You got this error because you are using an old FPC 2.2.1

The IDE allows me to compile the Printers4Laz package for PowerPC, but does not do anything if I try to compile the LCL from within the ide.

From the command line using
sudo make bidgide LCL_PLATFORM=carbon CPU_TARGET=powerpc FPC=/usr/local/bin/ppcppc OPT="-k-framework -kcarbon -k-framework -kOpenGL"

produces the..
Fatal : Can't find unit MacOSAll used by CarbonInt error I mentioned before.

Dominique.

svn head means the current revision.

So if you are using a svn version of fpc, and you run into a lazarus problem, first update your fpc svn version and try that.

Vincent

Hi Felipe,
I downloaded the latest SVN and attemped to build a new PowerPC compiler using the 2.2.2r1 compiler. These are the commands I typed... sudo /usr/local/bin/fpcmake -w -Tall
sudo make clean CPU_TARGET=powerpc FPC=/usr/local/bin/fpc sudo make all CPU_TARGET=powerpc FPC=/usr/local/bin/fpc

After the 3rd command I get the following error... Fatal: Can't find unit fpintres used by pp

It doesn't matter if I target "powerpc" or "i386" I get the same error for both. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Dominique.

You may find <http://www.microbizz.nl/fpc-scripts.zip> useful. I use them to build fpc and Lazarus from svn.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

Hi Adriaan, I have used your scripts before, but it looks like this version has been updated. I'll give them a try and see what happens.

Hi Felipe,
Afer using Adriaan van Os' excellent scripts I now have a ppc386 and a ppcppc that were both built today v2.3.1. The lcl compiles under both i386 and powerpc, but I'm still having problems with printer4lazarus package.
Using bigide and TARGET_CPU=powerpc compiles, but does not seem to correctly compile the printer4lazarus package.

If I compile my project via the IDE, the first time it complains that it can't fine Printer4Lazarus. I ignore the errors and it eventually compiles and appears to be building Printer4Lazarus in the back background. If I now try to build my project as a "powerpc" target, printerdlgs.pp is immediately displayed and I get the error message... Fatal: Can't find unit LResources used by PrintersDlgs.

From looking at the compiler options command line parameters screen it seems to be looking for it in
-Fu../../../../../.lazarus/lib/Printer4Lazarus/powerpc-darwin/

It this correct?

This seems to be my last hurdle in creating a Universal binary for this project.

Dominique

Dominique Louis wrote

From looking at the compiler options command line parameters screen it seems to be looking for it in -Fu../../../../../.lazarus/lib/Printer4Lazarus/powerpc-darwin/

No. It should probably be something like:
lazarus/components/Printer4Lazarus/lib/powerpc-darwin

Try compiling the package yourself in the IDE, and set the architecture in the compiler options.

And then check where are the .PPU files going to.

Compiling the package itself, from within the IDE, while targetting powerpc, throws up the same error as before.
While targetting i386 seems to compile fine.

Dominique.

Dominique Louis wrote

Compiling the package itself, from within the IDE, while targetting powerpc, throws up the same error as before. While targetting i386 seems to compile fine.

Which error? LResources?

If yes, try building only LCL for powerpc with the Configure Build Lazarus dialog.

Also, did you change your compiler in the Environment Options dialog?

Note:
This is the fallback path of the IDE.
The normal output path of the package is given below by Felipe. If this directory is not writable, the IDE compiles the package to the above.

Mattias

Yes the LResources error.

If yes, try building only LCL for powerpc with the Configure Build Lazarus dialog. Also, did you change your compiler in the Environment Options dialog?

Ah I did not realise I had to change it here as well as I thought that if I change the target it would pick up ppcppc automagically.

No I get a different error when compiling with the Environment Options changes you mentioned.

"Fatal: Can't find unit LazarusPackageIntf used by Printer4Lazarus"

How does one get the Spotlight tool to search all directories. For all of it's usability, I could not get spotlight to do this.

Is there no option to just compile everything for a particular target? I tried "make all" and "make bigide", maybe we need a "make everything"?

Dominique.

I forgot to mention that that error occurs in CarbonPrinting.pas.

Dominique.

Dominique Louis wrote

> How does one get the Spotlight tool to search all directories. For all > of it's usability, I could not get spotlight to do this.

The user interface to do this is quite bad. First enter something in a Search box. Then click on the Plus button in the results window. Then select "System files" in the Kind popup menu. And "Include" in the other popup menu. Of course, Apple refuses to let you set this as default, so that the next time the operation is less cumbersome (Mac OS X is only for dummies).

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

I don't know what you guys did, but downloading the latest SVN, 15600, allows me to cross-compile from on both i386 and PowerPC. But as mentioned in another post, there is now a range check error appearing in the IDE and when changing projects and reading Glyph.data.