[Lazarus] Lazarus on Debian "Wheezy"

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:36:33 +0000
>>> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using FPC 2.6.4 or late 2.7.1, compiling trunk on Wheezy is OK but 
>>>> running gives me

>> Trunk (as of yesterday evening), 2.6.4, export OPT='-O- -gl', make 
>> all, run with ./lazarus --sync --g-fatal-warnings.
>>
>> The machines here are generally Debian with KDE as a desktop, but the 
>> "Wheezy" systems are closely modelled on the older "Squeeze" ones. It 
>> appears that if I run on the machine's own display it works, but if I 
>> attempt to run Lazarus over SSH (a combination that works on all other 
>> systems around here and with numerous programs on the test systems) it 
>> fails with
> ..
>> Is OK over a remote X session (i.e. running in Xnest). An initial 
>> successful run to set up ~/.lazarus doesn't improve the situation over 
>> SSH but gets it to the point where lazbuild works.
>>
>> However I also find that a program built using Lazarus (IDE or 
>> lazbuild) fails on that system (i.e. Wheezy) in the same way as the IDE.
> 
> 32- and 64-bit are substantially the same. Qt works, so the problem 
> appears to be Lazarus (and Lazarus-built programs) using gtk2 over SSH 
> on Wheezy.
> 
> There might also be some minor Unicode display issues in Gtk2.

Can't test gtk3, trunk fails with

lazgtk3.pas(14777,1) Error: undefined reference to 
`gtk_widget_add_tick_callback'

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

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