I installed Lazarus 0.9.25 for Carbon on Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Intel machine). I downloaded today's snapshot from <http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/>, i.e. 20080831; including FPC and its sources (version 2.2.2), in the order FPC, FPC sources, Lazarus.

And though Lazarus starts up, it does not work properly. Its main menu bar never appears, its icon does nog show up in the dock, its windows do not respond to mouse clicks, except for clicking some of the icons on them (like Open ...). I did manage to open an existing hello project, but running it failed with a complaint near 'uses ... Interfaces'.

All Lazarus windows do open, it writes out a long list of debug info lines on the terminal, it does show up under 'top' in a terminal window, and in the Activity Monitor it is listed under the inactive processes.

What could be wrong here?

How I am supposed to start this Carbon version? I just ran it from /usr/local/bin in a terminal window. I also tried with 'open lazarus'.

What happened to an earlier installed version (I had a working 0.9.24 for powerpc installed)? It probably got overwritten; is that problametic for the new 0.9.25?

Thanks,

Tom

You must start the bundle (lazarus icon in finder), or the executable in the bundle (/usr/.../lazarus.app/Contents/MacOS/lazarus), but not the executable outside the bundle.

Yes, this could be problematic. Better delete the lazarus directory and install 0.9.25 again.

Mattias

I deleted both lazarus and fpcsrc, and reinstalled fpc, fpcsrc, and lazarus. (I don't know what to delete to uninstal fpc; anyway, the 2.2.2 i386 compiler works outside Lazarus.)

Starting the executable /usr/.../lazarus.app/Contents/MacOS/lazarus on the command-line was still not succesful.

But doing 'open lazarus.app' in /usr/local/share/lazarus did work. I got the menus, and the windows now responded normally.

When compiling a simple GUI hello program, it all works until

...
Using util /usr/bin/ld
An error occurred while linking
Error: Error while linking.

I checked /etc/fpc.cfg, and it looks OK.

This is the command that Lazarus issues:

ppc386 -Sca -MObjFPC -CirotR -O1 -gl -k-dylib_file -k'/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib:/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib' -k-framework -kCarbon -k-framework -kOpenGL -k'-dylib_file' -k'/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib' -WG -vewnhiut -l -Fu/usr/local/share/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-darwin/ -Fu/usr/local/share/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-darwin/carbon/ -Fu/usr/local/share/lazarus/packager/units/i386-darwin/ -Fu. -oHello -dLCL -dLCLcarbon hello.lpr

(By the way, is there a simple way to get at that command and be able to copy it to the clipboard?)

So close and yet so far away :-)

Thanks for further advice,

Tom

Nothing else?
Normally the linker writes some more information.

See
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_tricks#Getting_the_compiler_command_line_parameters_created_by_the_IDE

So close and yet so far away :-)

Mattias

Nothing else! It goes on with Fatal: There were 1 errors ...

In the Carbon version for Mac OS X, you cannot copy (command-C) the contents of the Show Options window. You can see the options and retype them. But *.compiled is indeed the place to look.

By the way, I probably deleted some "older" (?) files from the directory, and now the compile is successful!

Then I still needed to set Project Options > Application, Use Application Bundle... (is that really needed?)

And it runs :-)

Thanks for the help. Now onto something bigger.

Tom

You are right. I reported the bug:
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12032

It should be checked by default.

The bundle itself is created when running or debugging. Maybe it is better to do that after compiling.

And it runs :-) Thanks for the help. Now onto something bigger.

Mattias