[lazarus] Compiling lazarus

[Shane Miller]

Tony, I loaded up a new Mandrake 9 and tried this out and you are right,
the binutils needs to be loaded to get the assembler.  Then, you have to
create a bunch of symbolic links to libX11.so.?.?, libgtk-??.so.?.?,
etc.  We should find a better way to do this.  This is very confusing
for people to have to create links to all these files.

On Mandrake 9, I created all the link, ran lazarus and it crashed so now
I need to determine if I linked to a wrong version of gtk or something.

Shane


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Maro [mailto:tony at maro.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:31 PM
To: Lazarus List
Subject: Re: [lazarus] Compiling lazarus

On Wed, 1969-12-31 at 14:59, hjamilis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to have a working Lazarus on linux (Mandrake 8.0).
> 
> I downloaded fpc from the lazarus page, and the sources via CVS.

I recommend instead that you grab the snapshots of FPC from the FPC FTP
server.  Check out my howto at:
http://tony.maro.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=1200&page_id=17

> Assembling lclstrconsts
> lclstrconsts.pas(64) Error: Assembler as not found, switching to
external assembling
> lclstrconsts.pas(64) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module,
stopping


Looks like you don't have an assembler installed, and you'll need it.

I'm betting when you installed Mandrake you did not install the
"Development" options.

On my Mandrake 9 it installed "as" as part of the "binutils" package. 
So, fire up your software manager and install binutils.[whatever].rpm
from your Mandrake CD's.

-Tony


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