<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 April 2016 at 03:00, Alan Corey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan01346@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan01346@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't know where this illegal character error is coming from, but I<br>
didn't get it when I built and installed initially.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From the screen shot. Lazarus IDE v1.0,14 is very old. I'm guessing you installed it directly from your distribution repository? They're notorious for not keeping FPC/Laz up to date.</div><div><br></div><div>The first thing to do would be try a newer version</div><div><br></div><div>Any of these should help.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus">http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus</a></div><div><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.getlazarus.org/">http://www.getlazarus.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I'd install FPC from a SourceForge, then I'd use SVN to get latest as per the wiki.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div></div></div>