[Lazarus] 0.9.26 (FPC 2.2.2) on Slackware and Debian

[Andrew Haines]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> I presume that this works on Slackware because the symlinks already 
> exist, and can confirm:
>
> libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -> libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.1200.9
>
> and so on.
>
> In both cases Lazarus runs, although not fast.
>
> Now this is a completely virgin Debian system, it's never had 
> Debian-served FPC or Lazarus packages installed and I've got a fairly 
> good record of what's been put onto it and what changes there were in 
> /usr/lib.
>
> So would somebody please tell me what I'm doing stupid.
>
>   

You have to install the -dev packages like gtk2-dev etc. the dev 
packages make the symlinks for you.

regards,

Andrew