Help; RE: [lazarus] Form designer

[Samuel Liddicott]

Wow.  Thanks.

This is very longwinded though - at least you were able to devise a method
that worked.

In the end, with all the advice I had I found the unix-howto is almost right
so i am going to publish some changes to it.

Sam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bordeman [mailto:chrisbordeman at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 14 August 1999 05:09 AM
> To: lazarus at miraclec.com
> Subject: Re: RE: Help; RE: [lazarus] Form designer
>
>
> Hi, Sam.  I followed the HOW-TO it exactly, and ended up doing this:
>
> 0.  Install the latest stable gtk and glib (1.2.3).  Probably, you should
> install the gtk-devel and glib-devel stuff.
> 1.  Install the compiler via the binary (not source) RPM.  This
> gives you a
> working fpc compiler with which to compile a later (not THE
> latest) compiler
> snapshot.
> 2.  Set up FPCDIR=/opt/fpc in your ~/.bashrc  (and logout/in again)
> 3.  Now get the LATEST SNAPSHOT source from the FPC site and
> extract it into
> /usr/local/src/whatever and configure ; make ; make install.  Now edit the
> /etc/ppc386.cfg file, adding paths to files that are not found.  If a .ppu
> file is missing, find the .pp source directory and "make clean ; make"
> there.  Should that work, and the resulting compiler will be able
> to compile
> the BLEEDING EDGE compiler source in the CVS (in /opt/fpc/compiler).
>
> If .inc files are not found, or ppc386 complains of an obsolete
> -Fu switch,
> the include path and that switch, and .ppu/lib paths are all in
> ppc386.cfg.
> Use "make clean ; make" constantly until you get it working!
>
> 4.  The executable ppc386 is not in the path now, a link to it
> is.  Find the
> link to it and delete it.  Copy the executable to /opt/fpc/ppc386 AND
> /opt/fpc/ppc386.release.  Add /opt/fpc to the path in ~/.bashrc.  (Log
> out/in again).  From now on, "ppc386" should refer to _this_ executable,
> which will be replaced every time you cycle the compiler.  Time to cycle.
> 5.  Copy the files in /opt/fpc/base to /opt/fpc.  This puts makefile.fpc
> where the makefiles want it.  Try to "make clean ; make" now.  It
> will fail.
> Now edit the /etc/ppc386.cfg file, adding paths to files that are missing.
> If a .ppu file is missing, find the .pp source directory and "make clean ;
> make" there.  If .inc files are not found, or ppc386 complains of an
> obsolete -Fu switch, the include path and that switch, and .ppu/lib paths
> are all in ppc386.cfg.
> 6.  Once you have been SUCCESSFUL in creating the newest
> compiler/rtl, copy
> the rtl/* files to the /units/linux directory and delete ALL the
> old ppc386
> libraries installed wherever
> 6.  Modify the new_ppc script so that a /opt/fpc/units/linux/* is
> copied to
> /opt/fpc/units/linux.older and I created a ppc_revert script to copy
> /opt/fpc/units/linux.older BACK into /opt/fpc/units/linux and also copy -f
> /opt/fpc/ppc386.release to /opt/fpc/ppc386.  Add /opt/fpc/units/linux to
> /etc/ppc386.cfg.  This script will undo all damage done by a failed cycle.
> A cycle at this point will most likely fail in the linker stage if ppc386
> references old fpc rtl libs in the library search paths you failed to
> delete, so find /usr -name somenastylib.so if you suspect an older lib is
> the menace.
> 7.  do a "make clean" in the fcl, gtk, lazarus,lcl, and rtl
> directories.  Do
> "ldconfig" and run the make_lazarus script.
>
> When I get back into linux, I'll mail my modified scripts (and a
> few extras)
> and my /etc/ppc386.cfg file.  Hope this helps.
>
> Semper Fidelis,
>
> Chris Bordeman
>
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