[lazarus] How do I compile a form

[rob young]

Thanks
 I will try that when I get home.

Rob

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:55:21PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:26:19 -0500
> rob young <roblinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > When I compile a very basic program is works Lazarus works fine. When I 
> > add a form I get the following error at the end of this email.
> > 
> > (I am compiling in Linux) 
> > /home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/interfaces/gtk/interfaces.pp
> > 
> > was added to my project in this case, but the compiler does not seem to 
> > be able to find it.
> > I also added 
> > /home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/interfaces/gtk/
> > to my Libraries but the compiler still does not seem to find the 
> > interfaces.pp
> 
> DON NOT add any source path of the LCL to your search paths. (e.g. $(LazarusDir)/lcl or $(LazarusDir)/lcl/interfaces/gtk).
> The compiler will try to recompile the LCL and will probably fail.
> 
> 
> Just add the two ppu paths to your search path:
> 
> 1. /home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/units
> 2. /home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/units/gtk
> 
> 
> There are 3 ways of adding search paths:
> 
> A.
> In the IDE you can simply set 
> Run -> Compiler Options -> Search Paths -> Other unit files to
> 
> $(LazarusDir)/lcl/units;$(LazarusDir)/lcl/units/gtk
> 
> This will add the path for the current project. The IDE will set this path automatically, if you create a new project of type 'Application'.
> 
> 
> B.
> At the command line you can use:
> 
> ppc386 -Fu/home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/units -Fu/home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/units/gtk project1.pas
> 
> 
> C.
> Or you can add the path for all your projects, by adding the path to the compiler search path:
> In the /etc/fpc.cfg add these two lines:
> 
> -Fu/home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/units 
> -Fu/home/rob/lazarus/lazarus/lcl/units/gtk
> 
> 
> Mattias
> 
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