Hi,

If I have a small project that uses the LCL (and SynEdit) and a small makefile to build this project which consisting of not much more than a call to lazbuild then is it ok to write in the instructions that in order to build it from source on an ubuntu system one simply has to apt-get install lcl which in turn would pull all other needed things?

I have browsed through the package repositories and the dependencies and it seems that

lcl will pull lcl-units (which also contains SynEdit) and lcl-utils (which contains lazbuild)
lcl-utils will pull fp-compiler
fp-compiler will contain/pull all other needed rtl/fcl units

so a simple apt-get install lcl should theoretically satisfy all build dependencies for a normal lcl project without needing to install the full IDE and all sources, is this correct? I cannot test it myself because I don't have a recent ubuntu (and not enough free HD space to set up a VM right now)

And one more question: How does it determine which lcl backend to install if the user has both GTK2 *and* Qt libraries installed on his system, how will the "or" in the dependencies of lcl-units automatically be resolved?

Bernd