Indy 10 install in Lazarus 1.4.0

I had trouble getting Indy 10 to install properly in Lazarus 1.4.0. Eventually it worked. I wish to share what I learned.

Follow the instructions at
http://www.indyproject.org/sockets/download/svn.en.aspx <http://www.indyproject.org/sockets/download/svn.en.aspx> to download the indy 10 source and demos.I recommend that you download the subversion files to a location other than your Lazarus components directory. This way if you upgrade Lazarus it is not going to blow away your Indy code.

The Indy 10 source has a *.lpk (/lib/indylaz.lpk) file for installing Indy. DO NOT USE indylaz.lpk! THIS FILE DOES NOT WORK.

In the same directory create a new *.lpk file. I created a new file "indylaz201505251520.lpk"
<http://www.advdelphisys.com/downloads/indylaz201505251520.lpk> and its contents are: indylaz201505251520.lpk
<http://www.advdelphisys.com/downloads/indylaz201505251520.xml> .

If you currently have Indy installed, uninstall it.

In Lazarus open the *.lpk file you created above.

Press Compile. It should compile fine. If it does not then you have other problems.

If it compiled fine, press ?use/install?. In the following dialog press Yes.

Lazarus should recompile and restart. Your palette should now have all the Indy components.

Dick Maley

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