[lazarus] cant find unit interfacebase

[Marco van de Voort]

> It seems that lazarus works fine, if I skip the cd lazarus/lcl; make 
> OS_TARGET=win32 part of the compilation. I'm doing this because I must 
> build my projects to win32 too. So if I compile lazarus with make clean 
> all, and run it, it works fine. It can compile my projects. After 
> compiling the lcl to win32, and run lazarus, it can not build to linux 
> nor to win32. When trying to compile to linux, it says that it can not 
> find the INTERFACEBASE unit, and when trying to compile to win32, it 
> says that:
> TOutputFilter: 
> "/home/leva/FreePascal/lib/fpc/1.9.1/units/win32/rtl/wprt0.o: file not 
> recognized: File format not recognized"
> 
> Is this beacause of the 1.9.1 fpc? With 1.0.10 it worked fine, but I 
> didn't try if it works with it right now, because I need the 
> -dUseFPImage option, and it doesn't work with older fpcs.
> I'm getting the win32 units daily from here:
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/pascal/fpc/snapshot/v11/win32-i386/
> 
> These are precompiled. I got a bad feeling about these units are not for 
> the 1.9.1 version of fpc. Am I right?
> 
> I tried to compile the units (1.9.1) by hand:
> cd src/fpc; make clean; make OS_TARGET=win32 all
> 
> I get this error:
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/leva/FreePascal/src/fpc/rtl/win32'
> as -o wprt0.o wprt0.as
> wprt0.as: Assembler messages:
> wprt0.as:29: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_RVA
> wprt0.as:31: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_RVA
> wprt0.as:32: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_RVA
> wprt0.as:36: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_RVA
> wprt0.as:45: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_RVA
> make[4]: *** [wprt0.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/leva/FreePascal/src/fpc/rtl/win32'
> make[3]: *** [rtl] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/leva/FreePascal/src/fpc/compiler'
> make[2]: *** [cycle] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/leva/FreePascal/src/fpc/compiler'
> make[1]: *** [compiler_cycle] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/leva/FreePascal/src/fpc'
> make: *** [build-stamp.win32] Error 2
> 
> Can you tell me please what is wrong with this? Is this the ususal 
> method of compiling the win32 units (make OS_TARGET=win32 all)?

This sounds like you are compiling win32 sources with the dos assembler.

_always_ keep track of what binutils you are using if you have problems

(make, as,ar,ld)

Probably you installed a full DOS/WIN build, and now the binutils clash. (since 1.9.x
combined-in-one-directory dos/win installs are not possible anymore like this)

copy asw.exe as.exe
copy ldw.exe ld.exe
copy arw.exe ar.exe

in the appropiate directory (which will break your dos building)