[Lazarus] Error compiling Lazarus: process_begin: CreateProcess(...) failed

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:16:18 -0300
luiz americo pereira camara <luizmed at oi.com.br> wrote:

> I'm on Windows 8.1 using fpc 2.6.4 32bit, Lazarus svn 48695

Trunk or fixes?
In trunk the line 1223 of initialsetupdlgs.pas is a comment.
In fixes it is a call without parameters.
Either the memory is corrupted or the trace is bogus.

 
> Lazarus was working fine until i updated svn, one week ago.
> 
> Then the already compiled IDE (lazarus.exe and lazarus.old.exe) started to
> crash with access violation at initialization
> 
> TApplication.HandleException Access violation
>   Stack trace:
>   $00923D7F  TINITIALSETUPDIALOG__INIT,  line 1223 of initialsetupdlgs.pas
>   $0091FE07  SHOWINITIALSETUPDIALOG,  line 330 of initialsetupdlgs.pas
>   $00446BBF  TMAINIDE__SETUPINTERACTIVE,  line 1384 of main.pp
>   $00446E98  TMAINIDE__CREATE,  line 1447 of main.pp
>   $0040398E  main,  line 116 of lazarus.pp
> 
> Since i could not recompile Lazarus from the IDE, i tried to use make but
> it fails at "tools" target with the following error:
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `D:/repositories/lazarus/tools'
> echo
> process_begin:
> CreateProcess(C:\Users\Luiz\AppData\Local\Temp\make71602.bat, C:\
> Users\Luiz\AppData\Local\Temp\make71602.bat, ...) failed.
> make (e=2): O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado.
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `D:/repositories/lazarus/tools'
> make: *** [lazbuild] Error 2
> 
> The archive C:\Users\Luiz\AppData\Local\Temp\make71602.bat does not exists
> Disabled AV without luck
> Checked source tree and there's no leftover ppu/o files
> 
> Any idea what's going on?

Check your svn for local modifications.
Maybe you are using an old or wrong "make"?

Mattias