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

[Andrew Haines]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Andrew Haines wrote:
>
>   
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> Thanks Andrew, I'll work on it. Is there a way of deducing what packages 
> need to be installed rather than trying anything that looks relevant? So 
> far I'm working through package dependencies of the Debian Lazarus and 
> FPC packages.
>
>   
There are lazarus deb's around, I would at least temporarily install one 
so that it pulls in all the needed dev packages.

Regards,

Andrew