I am running Lazarus 0.9.26 under Gentoo Linux 2.6.27 using gtk2 widgets.

The Lazarus IDE did not have a SQLdb tab when I first installed it (using a Gentoo ebuild). I looked in /usr/share/lazarus[/components, etc.] and found that the units had not been built; after some experimentation I managed to get the "bigidecomponents" target built. This caused the SQLDBlaz package in the "Installed Packages" dialogue to change from a version of 0.0 to 1.0.1, so I had hoped that installing it from the dialogue and restarting Lazarus would cause the SQLdb tab to appear. It didn't.

I noticed that the .o & .ppu files built by the "make bigidecomponents" were not copied or moved to /usr/share/lazarus/units/i386-linux. Since the IDE picked up the version change correctly, I have assumed that it was not necessary to copy them there.

So, what have I missed?

David W Noon wrote

experimentation I managed to get the "bigidecomponents" target built. This caused the SQLDBlaz package in the "Installed Packages" dialogue to

What I do is as follows:

* Packages | "Open package file (*.lpk)"
* Then browse to the components/sqldb/ directory
* select "sqldblaz.lpk"
* In the new dialog, click "Compile"
* Then click "Install"
* Lazarus should now restart and you should see the SqlDB tab.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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That worked a treat. Many thanks, Graeme.

Just as an FYI:

The above method installed the updated Lazarus under my home directory. To make the SQLdb tab universally accessible, one can build (as root) the main Lazarus program using:

cd /usr/share/lazarus
make clean bigide LCL_PLATFORM=gtk2 {or qt, or whatever}

This will also make the RTTI and IPro tools available.

It would be nice if this were documented in the README.txt file that is included in the Lazarus bundle.