[lazarus] Newbie Q : Can't find classes.pas...

[Michal Bukovjan]

Also note that the "missing" gtk.ppu was solved for me when I deleted a 
stale /etc/ppc386.cfg (now only /etc/fpc.cfg should it used). Look if 
you have the /etc/ppc386.cfg and if so, remove it and see what happens.

Michal

David Creelman wrote:

>Hi Mattias,
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>Here it is.
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>The only change I made was in Makefile.fpc to try to get it to find gtk
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>	unitdir=lcl/units /usr/lib/fpc/1.0.6/units/linux/gtk lcl/u....
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>This didn't work, copying the ppu did. I'm using the 1.0.6 fpc rpm and 
>downloaded and installed the source rpm as well.
>
>Cheers
>DC
>On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 01:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>>On 29 Jun 2002 00:46:48 +1000
>>David Creelman <dave at geko.net.au> wrote:
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>>>>Also you mentioned, that you just copied gtk.pp. I guess you ment gtk.ppu.
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>>>Yes.
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>>>>What about the other files in the /usr/lib/fpc/1.0.6/units/linux/gtk/ directory?
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>>>Yes I couldn't get it to compile until I copied over the .ppu to the
>>>./lcl/units/gtk/ directory. The Makefile didn't seem to find them. I
>>>looked at the directions in the FAQ and everything was okay, so I
>>>thought I'd try copying the .ppus and it worked.....
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>>Hmm. You are now the third person with the gtk.ppu problem. It seems, that the compiler sometimes don't like it's own units. It always disappears mysteriously. Can you add the -va option to your fpc.cfg and do a 'make clean all' and send me the log plz? Perhaps I find out what the problem is.
>>This 'make clean all' should erase your .ppus in lcl/units/gtk.
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>>>>>I don't have too much spare time, but I'd like to tinker. What needs
>>>>>doing ?
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>>>>A lot of things. 
>>>>Do you like to help with the IDE (form editing, codetools, source editor, debugger, documentation), the LCL (components, images, docs) or the interfaces (components, images, docs)?
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>>>Are events working ? I tried to setup a FormShow event and it didn't
>>>seem to work....
>>>
>>>Form editing sounds interesting. There are lots of todos in
>>>customformeditor.pas, the code looks pretty complicated. I'll give it a
>>>go though.
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>>It would be nice, if you would send me comments/notes/annotations for the code. So that the next one will have it easier to participate. 
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>>>Is this where I'd start looking ?
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>>Yes. Almost all form editing code can be found in the designer/ directory and in customformeditor.pp and main.pp. I'm currently busy with the gtk2 bindings, but I hope to return to the form editing next week.
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>>>....Also is there a unit test suite set up ???
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>>No. But we definitely need one. Does anyone know a nice one?
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>>
>>Mattias
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