[Lazarus] fpGUI for the LCL on x86 Linux, and standalone on SPARC Solaris 10

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:02:17 +0000
> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:08:45 +0000
>>> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  > It is a very long mail thread. Maybe you can summarize the problem?
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> Using the instructions at 
>>>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpGUI_Interface i.e. with 3x 
>>>> symlinks, I cannot add fpGUI to the available LCLs; the Lazarus message 
>>>> window gives me
>>>>
>>>> fpguiint.pp(42,12) Fatal: Can't find unit fpg_main used by fpguiint
>>> What gives:
>>> ls -la lazarus/lcl/interfaces/fpgui/corelib/fpg_main.pas
>>> ?
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 markMLl markMLl 57000 Aug  2 14:16 
>> lazarus/lcl/interfaces/fpgui/corelib/fpg_main.pas
>>
>> where markMLl is user 1000.
>>
>>> svn diff?
>> It's the 0.7 release rather than svn,
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 markMLl markMLl       9 Jan 12 16:49 fpgui -> fpgui-0.7
>> drwxr-xr-x 14 markMLl markMLl    4096 Aug  2 14:16 fpgui-0.7
>> -rw-r--r--  1 markMLl markMLl 3308790 Jan 12 16:49 fpgui-0.7.tar.gz
>> 0 1>markMLl at pye-dev-07:/usr/local/share/fpgui$ cksum *
>> cksum: fpgui: Is a directory
>> cksum: fpgui-0.7: Is a directory
>> 592533306 3308790 fpgui-0.7.tar.gz
>>
>> Note the symlink there hence paths like 
>> /usr/local/share/fpgui/fpgui/src/corelib
>>
>>> Attach the output of
>>> cd lazarus/lcl/interfaces/fpgui/
>>> make
>> 0 1>markMLl at pye-dev-07:/usr/local/share/lazarus/lcl/interfaces/fpgui$ make
>> /bin/rm -f ../../units/i386-linux/fpgui/interfaces.ppu \
>>                  ../../units/i386-linux/fpgui/interfaces.o
>> /usr/local/bin/ppc386 -gl -dfpgui -Fu../../units/i386-linux -Fu. 
>> -Fucorelib -Fugui -Fucorelib/x11 
>> -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.4.2/units/i386-linux/rtl -Ficorelib 
>> -Ficorelib/x11 -FE. -FU../../units/i386-linux/fpgui -di386 interfaces.pp
>> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.2 [2010/11/16] for i386
>> Copyright (c) 1993-2010 by Florian Klaempfl
>> Target OS: Linux for i386
>> Compiling interfaces.pp
>> 46 lines compiled, 2.9 sec
> 
> Ok, the make works.
> Start the IDE in a terminal and compile the LCL for fpgui. Send the
> output.
> 
> Mattias

Got it, mea culpa:

WorkDir="/usr/local/share/lazarus-trunk/lcl"

but the version of Lazarus I was running was 0.9.29 in lazarus-testing. 
With that fixed I can build an fpGUI LCL from inside Lazarus, can 
compile and run a trivial test program, and can build the UI Designer. 
Also for completeness make LCL_PLATFORM=fpgui lcl appears to complete 
successfully.

At which point I think I'll swap back onto the Solaris 10 system, 
because I think having the UI Designer running would be a worthwhile 
stepping stone towards Lazarus...

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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