What is going wrong? Why do I keep getting "failing to compile resources" error.

I'm using latest Lazarus 0.9.30.1 with FPC 2.4.3. 'fpc' and 'fpcres' and friends are in my PATH environment variable.

No matter what I do, I simply can't get Lazarus to compile the doceditor (lazde) project.

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Hint: Start of reading config file /home/graemeg/.fpc.cfg
Hint: End of reading config file /home/graemeg/.fpc.cfg
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.3 [2011/03/26] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2010 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling lazde.lpr
Compiling frmmain.pp
Compiling pgeditor.pp
Compiling pkeditor.pp
Compiling fpdeutil.pp
Compiling lazdemsg.pp
Writing Resource String Table file: lazdemsg.rst
Compiling lazdeopts.pp
lazdeopts.pp(147,35) Hint: Local variable "FallbackLang" does not seem
to be initialized
lazdeopts.pp(147,22) Hint: Local variable "Lang" does not seem to be initialized
Compiling frmnewnode.pp
Compiling eleditor.pp
Compiling frmexample.pp
Compiling frmlink.pp
Compiling frmmain.pp
Compiling pgeditor.pp
pgeditor.pp(126,16) Hint: Unit "frmNewNode" not used in pgEditor
Compiling frmmakeskel.pp
frmmakeskel.pp(55,28) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
Compiling frmoptions.pp
frmoptions.pp(62,31) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmoptions.pp(60,25) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmoptions.pp(60,46) Hint: Parameter "CloseAction" not used
frmoptions.pp(61,26) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
Compiling frmtable.pp
Compiling frmabout.pp
frmabout.pp(46,26) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
Compiling frmbuild.pp
Compiling frmsource.pas
frmbuild.pp(112,27) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmbuild.pp(113,35) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmbuild.pp(114,31) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmbuild.pp(116,34) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmbuild.pp(117,26) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(168,30) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(161,28) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(146,28) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(147,34) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(145,29) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(148,36) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(150,33) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(151,42) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(153,34) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(155,35) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(157,44) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(159,27) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(160,35) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(162,30) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(163,28) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(167,34) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(169,31) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
frmmain.pp(170,30) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
eleditor.pp(702,25) Hint: Local variable "L" does not seem to be initialized
eleditor.pp(686,5) Note: Local variable "P" not used
eleditor.pp(1022,41) Hint: Local variable "T" does not seem to be initialized
eleditor.pp(1022,39) Hint: Local variable "S" does not seem to be initialized
eleditor.pp(1014,3) Note: Local variable "P" not used
eleditor.pp(126,33) Hint: Parameter "Sender" not used
lazde.lpr(9,13) Hint: Unit "frmOptions" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(10,13) Hint: Unit "frmNewNode" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(11,14) Hint: Unit "FrmMakeSkel" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(12,10) Hint: Unit "FrmLink" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(13,11) Hint: Unit "frmTable" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(14,11) Hint: Unit "FrmAbout" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(15,11) Hint: Unit "PkEditor" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(18,13) Hint: Unit "FrmExample" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(19,11) Hint: Unit "frmBuild" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(20,12) Hint: Unit "frmSource" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(21,11) Hint: Unit "LazDEMsg" not used in lazde
lazde.lpr(23,11) Hint: Unit "pgEditor" not used in lazde
Compiling resource
/home/graemeg/programming/lazarus/doceditor/units/i386-linux/lazde.or
lazde.lpr(31,1) Error: Error while compiling resources
lazde.lpr(31,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping

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I have no problems in Ubuntu Oneiric current:

etrusco at oneiric-vm:~/projetos/lazarus/doceditor$ ../lazbuild lazde.lpi (...)
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.4-1ubuntu1 [2011/06/20] for i386 (...)
lazde.lpr(23,11) Hint: Unit "pgEditor" not used in lazde Compiling resource units/i386-linux/lazde.or
Linking lazde
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T? 34 lines compiled, 3.3 sec
14 hint(s) issued
[TCompiler.Compile] end
etrusco at oneiric-vm:~/projetos/lazarus/doceditor$

Best regards,
Fl?vio

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote

Check for duplicate resources in the main(?) file, e.g. {$R *.res} {$R

I did check that, and there was nothing that seemed out of place. I also tried to switch between LRS and FPC resources, but that made no difference either.

I also made sure I deleted all compiled units from the output directory.

Check for duplicate resources in the main(?) file, e.g. {$R *.res} {$R xyz.res}, and remove the excess ones. It also may help to switch between the lfm and lrs(?) resource type, in the project (compiler?) options. At least this helped me sometimes, on Windows.

DoDi