Hi Mattias,
Thanks for helping!
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> After a couple of years away I am trying to pick up Lazarus again. Have
> to admit I seem to have lost a lot of the things I was at least somewhat
> knowledgeable in. Ah, well, I keep on trying...
>
> One of those things has to do with rebuilding the IDe after adding
> components. There's two things I can't seem to grasp.
>
> The first has to do with lpk files. I'd like to add AnchorDocking, but
> when I look in /usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/components/anchordocking/design I
> do not see a lpk file. Am I missing something? Or is my version of
> Lazarus not complete?
There should be a file
/usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/components/anchordocking/design/anchordockingdsgn.lpk
otherwise it is incomplete.
OK. In that case my install is incomplete. As a matter of fact I tried two installs now. First I tried the "official" package from Debian (testing) and after that I tried the procedures from the wiki (http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_release_version_for_Ubuntu)
Both had the same problem: missing lpk files.
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Will do that. This is not an AMD64 system, so I've downloaded the i386 debs. Will install those this weekend.
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> The other thing pops up when I want to rebuild the IDE. Building project
> is no problem (well, that is for the simple projects I tried 'til now).
> I get an error that the file staticpackages.inc can not be found. It
> does however exist in my ~/.lazarus directory and has proper rights. So
> I am thinking paths. But what path do I need to configure in the options
> dialog?
The IDE generates a file ~/.lazarus/idemake.cfg on every IDE build.
That should contain the include path (-Fi/home/user/.lazarus) as last
line.
Does it?
I checked (after reading your mail), and yes it does.
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> I found some article on the problem with Linux systems and the
> impossibility of writing outside of your own home directory and thought
> it might have to do something with that.
That is a security feature and existed since the beginning of time.
System wide programs are installed outside the users home directories.
For example in /usr/lib/lazarus/.
You can install Lazarus either system wide or only for your user. You
can install multiple versions at various places.
When you install your own packages the IDE has to create some new files
and put them into ~/.lazarus/bin. This creates your own custom IDE.
OK. Knew about the Linux specifics (been a user/admin for almost 2 decades now). But was not sure about the lazarus way of doing things. I did find the ~/.lazarus directory. That's way I knew for sure staticpackages.inc did exist and was accessible.
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> So I tried "startlazarus', but
> that does not seem to change anything (as far as I can see). The error
> message about still pops up.
startlazarus is just a wrapper that checks if you have your own
custom IDE and starts that instead of the system wide.
It has no effect on the building itself.
Ah. Good to know. Was thinking maybe it did set some additional paths etc. But have to admit I did not check startlazarus itself out. Just used it to start the IDE and see if that solved my problem.
Thanks for the pointers. I am going to remove the package manager version and install the version from sourceforge. See if that solves things.
Grx HdV
